‘Skip the line’: Law Australia badly needs

I’ve always hated queuing.

But I’ve never disliked waiting in a line more than since I became a parent.

One of the worst experiences had to be when I was waiting at Dublin airport to board a Ryanair flight to Portugal last December.

Trapped in a stairwell, my six-month-old son was that delightful combination of both tired and hungry.

The line for priority tickets (that we had paid extra for) was actually longer than the non-priority queue.

I got plenty of sympathetic looks from other passengers as I did my best to comfort my son as the line crawled down the staircase, across the tarmac and finally onto the plane over the next 20 minutes.

During that time, my husband kept busy carrying our hand luggage which consisted of (I wish I was joking) two wheelie suitcases, his backpack, my handbag, our baby bag and travel pram.

If ever I had wished to skip to the front of the line, it was then.

But lucky for me, by the time our flight touched down in Portugal for the next week of our holiday, we could do just that.

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