They don't need a new line - they just need to be both polite, and wait at the start of the bucket, laptop, shoes off process.

There is nothing worse than standing in your socks (with the big holes in them) waiting for 17 crew members to go in front of you.

This was at PDX, and in yesterday's case, they also cut between a wheelchair attendant and the person he was wheeling, who had to wait - standing for the FAs to go through while the wheelchair was on the other side.