Successfully asking to cut someone ahead of you in line entails being urgent but not pushy. Andrew Bret Wallis via Getty Images Airport security checks are necessary to travel, but when you are ...

But why had the person I’d cut in front of let me do it? People are just unlikely to make a big deal about someone cutting a line, even if they feel irked.

If you've lived in the world you've waited in a line, and at some point in your life—if not many—someone has cut in the line and made you wait longer.

The average cut at The Masters is 148.42, slightly over +4. The oldest player to make the cut was Couples in 2023 at age 63, while the youngest was amateur Tianlang Guan at age 14 in 2013.

Advice Ask Amy: Frequent traveler grumpy about those who pay to cut in front of the line Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 12:04 a.m.