Russian term (edited): prosish' bez ocheredi

or:

"You can jump the queue by announcing that you are going to buy [mere] two syringes."

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Note added at 3 days 2 hrs 40 mins (2004-03-16 21:50:16 GMT)
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Translation:
One jumps the queue by asking, \"Let me take [just] two syringes.\"

The form \"prosish\'\" is more likely to mean that the narrator tells how the queue skipping happens *usually* but is *not referring to one particular event* at a chemist\'s. In fact, very similar to English, where \"you\" + verb can mean abstractly: \"one does this and that...\".

The narrator does not particularise on how one should proceed, namely what happens first - the going to the front of the queue, or, the request of two syringes - both ways are possible. The drug user\'s request will probably be heard both by the chemist and by those standing the queue, which is in a way rational and faster, to settle both matters in one go.

The lack of further context brings a lot of suspense; we don\'t know how the queue would react and what is the drug user\'s intention (maybe to threaten the chemist to obtain drugs illegally).

Of course, the narrator might be remembering one or several events that have happened to themselves at a/the chemist\'s, but from this little context we cannot be sure of that.

Just translate it with the \"vague in, vague out\" method. You\'re not supposed to add any facts or imaginations when translating.

Cordialement,
Valters