Ok, I don't, but apparently all other people like to form queues. I am not suggesting to jump the queue, I hate when people do that, I 'm talking about situations when queuing can be avoided. One example: a traffic light with two lanes: in 9 out of 10 situations you will see all cars queueing in one lane, while nobody is using the other lane. Why?
Another example: We went to see 'Casino Royale' yesterday in the vue in North Finchley (I really enjoyed it, I think Craig is a much better Bond than Brosnan) . We were thinking of buying online, but they charge you 60p booking fee per ticket, so we thought 'screw it', should be alright Wednesdays. But no, there was this amazingly long queue, damn. Hang on, why is nobody using the ticket machine? Let's try...
"Please choose the film!"
Beep
"Please choose the amount of tickets!"
Beep, Beep, Beep
"Please pay with your debit/credit card!"
Beep (You didn't even need your pin.)
"Thank you. Take your tickets and enjoy the film."
Total amount of time: 20 seconds.
Estimated queuing time: 20 minutes.
So, I think there's no other explanation, people love queuing!
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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Queuing is the British national sport. We feel compelled to join queues even if we don't know what they're for :)
That is the most interesting difference between the Italians, the Germans and the British.
Italians jump queues, and the self-organizing underlying protocol creates a very nicely shaped circular queue (you know, we love art...).
Germans tend to walk over other people in the queue, especially if they don't promplty show their Weisswurstel while queuing.
The British love to queue. Just wonder why there is no OS developed in the UK, but only theoretical models...
Wendesday is the worst day for movies. If you have an orange mobile, you will know...
you dared using the machine after your experiences with the german train ticket machines? wow!
in the meantime you have to press about 15 times just to get a standard connection between 2 big cities...
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