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Q: What do you do when someone cuts in line?
I just had two line cutters for the train bathroom queue.
The first one got in too fast. Second one, I grabbed him by the coat and snapped, "Oh no, motherpucker, you ain't goin' nowhere," and dragged him out of the bathroom by force. The two train police were laughing their asses off, so I didn't get in trouble.
In fact, this is my general response now. I've even pulled women out of their swindled positions and put them in their rightful places -- behind me where they belong.
Do you think satan was Chinese? When Jesus said, "get thee behind me, satan," it's obvious that the devil was trying to cut in line...
I like to belch really really loud in their ear then kick them in the back of the ankle and after that I like to blow air in their face. 
Hahahahahahahahahah, I'm laughing on my own seated at McDo and reading your post. Actually I do believe Satan was a Chinese! Hahahahahahah.
That is one of my favorite circumstances to make people lose their faces. I'm a "lose face" hunter. At the supermarket when they cut the line to get the proce for vegetables, I simply remove them from the counter and put mine showing the place where, ladies or men should go: in line, please. Also the attendant I noticed they ask people to go in line too, so it's even easier for me to show them where to go.
As always, when it comes to making people lose their faces I am a no mercy hunter.
GuilinRaf:
and, I would add "Qin pai dui" (please make the line) n ot out of politeness but so that others will know what went on.
Just walk on front of them and restore the balance. Don't be so preoccupied with the fact they've skipped you. What animal wants to be left with the scraps?
Hulk:
Animal Hulk does. Besides, you can't walk in front once they've gone through the door. The train is too small. Your only choice is to take it, or go Diarrhea Hulk on them...
The cold blooded killer stare typically gets them back in line when they cut in front of me.
First I tell them "Qin Pai Dui" (please make the queue) If it is ignored (80% of the time it IS ignored, often with a laugh) I take my bottle of water and scan it on the price scanner, completely adding up their bill. Eventually, the cashier gets so fed up with my antics that the cutter is told to line up.
GuilinRaf:
Woops!
Diarrhea Hulk made me re read the question. I completely missed that this was regarding a bathroom and not the cashier.
Ooops. Serves me right for not drinking my lunch time coffee before reading the question in the teachers lounge....
Turn round, point and shout "laowai". Whilst they're looking for the non existent foreigner, simply walk straight back in front of them. 
Cut in line is called 'cha dui', if I'm not in a hurry I won't bother, but if I'm feeling uppity I'll just say 'Bie cha dui!' in a loud, deep voice, then as they jump from being startled, I step in front of them.
I often say "bie cha dui" or "wo zai ni de qianmian". Sometimes it works, though often I get ignored.
If someone tries to cut in line I'll use my defenses and defend myself from any harm they may cause by trying to cut! In your case they cut you snap in my case they cut I snooze. I usually don't catch them because like you I've been caught off guard several times. Cut back! (
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He he, I said: "cut"!
There is no q in the Chinese alphabet!
I say to them ni xian (you first). If they don't respond I say it again louder and slower and again and again.
They don't want to lose face so they will ignore you at first but then become totally embarrassed.
Sometimes I throw in a laowai meiyou lian (ma)? Foreigners have no face? Ni you lian ma? But you have face? In other words am I invisible?
The idea is to shame and embarrass them. They hate that.
My Chinese wife says don't do it; they will pull a knife on you one day but I have had excellent results and always get my rightful place back in the queue. I notice other Chinese smirking many times. Chinese mostly stoically accept q jumpers and that's why they proliferate.
The best strategy is to block them before they cut in front of you like drivers do on the road. You have to see them coming before hand.
When they actually do get past me...like the other day at KFC...a young punk cop..I tap them on the shoulder and say NO and point to the back of the line...boy he didn't like that but after a quick death stare he complied.
Most of the time my defensive queuing works well enough they don't dare try.
I don't believe in Karma, God or Eskimos. But I am sure that people who cut in line will have a dire fate.
If it is a otherwise well formed line, like a supermarket checkout, I will tap their shoulder and just point in the direction behind me, or simply just walk into them in what would most seem like their don't exist and I am just following the queue
