It's been nearly a decade since I've had to deal with the assholes at the airport, but I'd always make sure to wait close enough to the line to not end up forgo

It's been nearly a decade since I've had to deal with the assholes at the airport, but I'd always make sure to wait close enough to the line to not end up forgotten about. This would also cause the occasional person in line to think I was in line ahead of them, so they'd stop and wait behind me until an agent manually coaxed them forward. Sometimes they'd ask me if I was waiting and I'd get to say something like "oh, no, I'm not going near that thing". But the turbulence would generally make the agents see my waiting there as a higher priority to take care of.