Originally Posted by
Ryanardo_daVinci
The boarding order tends to be pre-pre-boarding for anyone willing to check their bag, THEN Group 1.
The gate agent might have been confused as to whether you were at the end of that group or the very start of group 1.
There was no possibility that was the case. The pre checkers had gone down the stairs already and the group 1 queue had been lined up to go through the electronic gates.