A fast-food customer in quite a hurry took to social media to ask about the ethics of — and thoughts about — the act of cutting in line. 

Reddit user “u/FirstContribution236” posted to the subreddit page known as “r/AmItheA–hole” on August 20 to seek advice from others after receiving staredowns by fellow customers at a lunch spot. 

The user, whose name or gender was not specified, described a recent visit to grab a sandwich at a popular spot — a place the person apparently often visits.

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Upon arrival, the Reddit writer was shocked to find a long line of people waiting to order — a line that normally, the person indicated, required a wait time of no more than five minutes.

The user, who wanted to order a single sandwich, said he or she was in a hurry and didn’t have a lot of time to wait for food. 

So the person decided to skip the line by walking to the front — and asking the two or three people who were about to order if they would add the user’s meal to their order. 

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In return, the user said he would pay for the person’s meal. 

“The first person in the queue took me up on the offer,” the individual reported in the Reddit post. 

The user explained that the pair ordered — and the user then paid for the meals.

The issue, however, began after the person paid for the order and was waiting for the food to arrive.

The user noticed that other people standing nearby had begun to stare and glare. 

“One person [even] came out and said that I was rude for skipping the line … and [that] there was a line for a reason,” the user reported.

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After receiving the ordered food, the user apologized and left, according to the Reddit post.

The user is now questioning his or her actions — saying if no one had accepted the offer of paying for food, then he wouldn’t have skipped the line. 

Fox News Digital spoke with Florida-based etiquette expert Jacqueline Whitmore about the situation. 

She said the user was in the wrong. 

“It doesn’t matter if he offered to pay for someone else’s meal or not,” she said. 

“He overstepped his boundaries by feeling entitled and skipping over many other people, so he could satisfy his own needs.” 

Whitmore said skipping the line might have made one person happy — but it resulted in many others feeling unhappy. 

“This was a poor, inconsiderate move on his part,” she said.

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Whitmore recommended that the user choose somewhere else for lunch next time the person’s in a time crunch. 

Some Reddit users agreed with the etiquette expert — saying the person’s front-of-the-line order pushed everyone else’s back. 

“What makes you think that [your] time is more important than anyone else’s in that line?” one user asked. 

Another person wrote, “Is it fair to the person who has to wait 20 minutes because he can only afford his own sandwich?” 

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Some users, however, said they felt the user was not wrong — saying one sandwich probably wouldn’t further the wait time more than it already was doing. 

“I don’t think one sandwich is really going to bog everything down,” one user wrote. 

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Another agreed by saying, “You can pay for my food anytime … People are just jealous [that] you didn’t get them free food.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the Reddit user for further comment.

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While it’s quite true that year-over-year inflation is cooling as the Fed has slammed on the brakes, and it’s also the case that people are working as the unemployment rate is low – what the Bidens don’t seem to understand is that their economic polls are hovering in the 30s because average working folks are losing affordability on a daily basis.

You may have a job – which is great – but after inflation your take-home pay has gone down 26 of the past 29 months. So, you may have to take a second job. In fact, each spouse in the family may have to take a second job just to get by. What’s the problem here?

The level of prices has risen significantly in the past two years – from Biden’s frenzied government spending, his war on fossil fuels and the Fed’s money-printing up until recently. For example, think of this: the level of the consumer price index is up 16% since February 2021. Day-to-day necessities like groceries are up 19%.

Gasoline at $3.85 is up about 40%. It was about $2.35 a couple years ago. Meats, poultry and fish up 19%. New cars up 20% if you can get one. Used autos up 34%. You go down the list and you can see that these outsized price hikes take a real toll on traditional family life.

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Overall real wages are down about 3%. The average family is spending over $700 a month more for everyday purchases than they were two years ago. With mortgage rates now running upwards of 7.5%, housing affordability is the worst since 1997, according to my friend Liz Peek and, according to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, who will be here in a moment, the reality of back-to-school under Bidenomics is very expensive.

Pens, markers and mechanical pencils cost 13% more today. Binders and folders cost 48.5% more than they did last year. Crayons and highlighters are up an average of 18.5% over the past year.

So, when my friend Jared Bernstein, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, says that questions about inflation have gone “stale,” he’s really missing the point. Affordability is different than inflation. The causality may be similar, namely excess spending and money creation. The reality though is that individual prices can be family killers.

The other point worth making is that despite a softer inflation rate recently, especially compared to the gigantic inflation a year ago, the overall problem of rising prices has not yet been solved and I want to make one more point.

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Last week, I spoke with former President Donald Trump about the need for supply-side policies like lower taxes and regulations and a lid on federal spending, but Mr. Trump’s first love is something he calls “liquid gold.” That refers to our vast energy resources, including oil and gas.

Liquid gold affects literally hundreds of prices throughout our economy. The obvious one is gasoline. Open up those spigots, reignite production, and hundreds of business and family-oriented prices will go back down to where they were several years ago. That will conquer family inflation, and all the other ‘flations’ you can think of.

This article is adapted from Larry Kudlow’s opening commentary on the August 22, 2023, edition of “Kudlow.” 

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