Globe Theatre Groundling Etiquette

The first blast of the trumpet against the monstrous
regiment of impolite groundlings

The one, cardinal rule of groundling* Globe etiquette is, as far as I am concerned, the following: 

If you would like a good stage-leaning position, you must be prepared to queue for it. 

Nothing annoys me more at the Globe than a person who didn't bother to queue, sidling up behind me as I stand in my excellent leaning position FOR WHICH I HAVE SPENT AT LEAST THE LAST HOUR AND A HALF QUEUING, and imploring me to squeeze up in order to grant them leaning space beside me. 

Usually the person who does this is short and thinks that they are entitled to a good leaning position by virtue of their height. But no, sorry, short people with entitlement issues - if  you would like a good leaning position you must queue for it just like anyone else. If you are capable of standing for two and a half hours to watch a play, you are capable of queuing. And if you can't be bothered to queue but still feel you desperately need to lean, you can generally obtain leaning positions at the less desirable sides of the stage. 

Another annoying thing is when groundlings try to save leaning positions at the stage for their fellows. This happened recently on the famous three-plays-in-a-day day for Henry VI Part 2. Someone tried to save leaning positions for two or three other people when we were actually inside the Globe, at the stage. I didn't know whether the people for whom she was saving places had even queued at all, or whether they had gone to the toilet at the critical juncture of groundling entry into the Globe, or what. But whatever the reason, it's not fair to expect groundlings who have unambiguously queued to have to pass up their long-awaited places for people who aren't there at the moment of entry into the Globe. 

Summary: Queue, queue, queue if you want a good stage-leaning position. And don't leave the queue (apart from at moments when the queue is not about to go into the Globe).

*audience member who stands rather than sits in an Elizabethan-style theatre