Waiting in queue

Last 3 months myself and my husband had been travelling every weekend by train, and at the starting we found out that buying a ticket at last moment for general compartment is a pain, just because lot of people kept breaking the queue to get their ticket directly at the window, or asking other person to buy a ticket for them or paying Rs. 10 to policeman!!!!!!!! to buy a ticket for them, and the thing which disturbed me most was nobody in the queue was bothered by the fact that all such things were causing delay for them to get a ticket. So we decided to get a ticket everytime by standing in the queue rather than reserving and started doing one thing. Of us, one used to stand in a queue or ask the person in front and back to retain our no. in the queue and then go and stand near the ticket window, dont let anybody bypass the queue and get the ticket in between. initially people laughed at us. Then some started joining us from preventing people to get the ticket in between. Then some people started admiring us for making it easy for them. finally i saw 1-2 people doing same thing until their no. came.
offcourrse we cant do social service by standing there all day, only thing we did was whatever time we had to stand in the queue, we made sure no injustice can be done to us by the bypassers, and it showed others the benefit of shouting at the bypassers to get ur ticket in time.
Morale of the story: you cant change others thinking but can set an example for others by showing them the benefits or at least making them aware of it.

Plastic bags

What do you do with plastic bags? I normally store them for future use. But what about the bags which are not clean from inside?
Normally we throw them away. Next time you have such unclean plastic bag, dont throw it away, use it as dustbin lining. Doing so will reduce at least one plastic bag in the waste.
I know we can not stop completely using plastic bags/polythenes practically. But try to minimize their use by taking your own bag for shopping, especially while buying vegetable, Fruits. Also reuse them as much as possible before throwing them away.
One more suggestion - the unclean bags can also be used to throw away food waste which needs to be sealed in plastic before throwing away e.g. leftovers or spoilt food items.
The packets of chips, groceries and bags of packeted food in it, milk plastic bags can also be reused this way.
I hope it will reduce the plastic waste everyday by some mean.
Also share if you have some more ideas.