Do you QUEUE?

HI lordwarwizard, I queue up for the sake of queuing up, just the same as you, I truly think that queuing up is a waste of time. Therefore, I check if there is any queue at counter before making purchases. If there is a queue, I will come back in a few minutes to the counter. However, if I am caught in the queue, I will patiently wait for my turn, it is pointless to jump queue and boycotting the queue.

I live in a small town, and I don't often find myself in a queue for anything. Especially in the summer when many of the university students are gone, it seems like my town has more businesses than people. So if a place is too busy, I will usually just go elsewhere. I have lived in bigger cities where there was more of a problem with queues, and I patiently waited my turn when that happened. Usually I use the time to look at the people around me and imagine things about their lives. Later I would remember the stories and write them down, or tell them to my friends. It's a fun way of exercising your imagination when the time otherwise seems wasted.

I always fall in line accordingly. Whether in the grocery, mall or bank. I can't stand seeing anyone trying to make a pass at me. But then, I always zip my mouth and never uttered a word. However, my eyes will turn venomous and wishing that the rude person will stumble or slip on the floor. That would be my day. Nasty thought, don't you think.

Well Wizard I do queue. I will patiently wait to pay for something but if another till opens up and I am the last person in line I will go to the other till. I should mention to that not only will I wait my turn I will let the person behind me go ahead if I have a lot of stuff and they have only a few things. I will also do this if what I want is going to take a long time. To tell you a story I was in the pharmacy two days ago refilling meds and someone was at the counter so I gave them plenty of room and privacy to talk to the pharmacist and someone else came in and walked right past me and stood right behind them. I more or less ignored it and thought well apparently she needs her meds more than me. I went to the other end and looked at other stuff there while she was talking to the pharmacist until she left then I stood right at the counter. LOL. :)

Standing in a queue depends on the priority of the thing to be done. If its something important I will spend time waiting in the queue till my turn is come. Some things can be postponed which I do all the times. I usually go at the odd times when the queue is at its minimal. Going at the peak hours will only waste my time. I follow the rules and don't do anything which is wrong as considered to standing in a queue.

Firstly wizzy I queue, I will stand in line until its my turn. What I want to know is the person that first notice this how did he calculate how long some poor singapoorin queued for. Or was it someone that queued and kept notes.lol Two years is a long time.

I queue when the situation requires it. If it takes longer than what I am willing to wait or I can think of an alternative I leave the queue. I don't like queues but I respect them whenever I am in one, and it bothers me deeply when people don't respect them. I can actually get quite mad when I"m waiting for my turn like someone else and then some smart soul decides to just pass in front of everyone else. It bothers me not just that I am loosing my turn for this person that feels so special to pass in front of everyone else but even more the fact that there was a blatant lack of respect for others. I've seen parents doing that with their children and sometimes even telling the kids to go ahead in front of the queue and then they join them there as if the kids have been there all along, and that really ticks me off, they're teaching the kids to be disrespectful. Nobody likes to be in a queue, and yet, we need to and since we do either respect others or get off. I remember a time back home where if you as much as tried to butt in - not that many did - the others in the queue would talk you into going to your place and if you didn't they would get you there by any means. I know this created a few fights here and there but the fact is that queues were respected then. I'm sorry for the long answer but this subject is one that really gets to me :)

Even if I do not want to queue, I have no choice but to queue. I do not have super privilege to cut queue when everyone else is queuing, especially when there are so many controls in place to manage queues. The only place I do not need to queue is at my home. It is free and easy. Perhaps in mylot too when we respond to discussions and posting discussions. There is no need for any queue order. Maybe you are also aware we are on queue even if we want to give up our identity cards :P

I hate standing in lines. I always look for the shortest line at the grocery. I no longer skip in line or "butt" in. BUT when I was younger, we went to a amuzement park with my school. We would yell "mom, dad" and skip people. Then we would stand behind a couple and say "hi, how are you" to look like they were our parents when in reality they were total strangers..lol. But I don't do such horrors anymore ;P

i'll only queue if it's something i absolutely need,or if i absolutely have to get somewhere (like the bus).otherwise,i don't have the patience for it. if it's a store and it's that full,i'll most likely go somewhere else instead to shop.

I would say that queuing is a part of life so therefore not a waste of time. Each moment we are alive, we could focus on what is going on here and now. What are we saving time for? Zen practitioners spend hours in meditation - therefore when they queue, it is an opportunity to meditate on the art of waiting in line. If I find myself in a queue I use it as an opporunity to just be still in my mind. If I have another appointment and I need to get to it on time, I will put off queuing and go back later. A good question is, why is everybody in a rush to do something else? We are all going eventually to the same place :-)

I think i do QUEUE...specially here in US, people yell at you if you cut them! I think it's kind of neat...i see people here live quite in order. Even on traffic...you know that intersection with no traffic light only 4 way STOP sign, is pretty amaze me first time i got here. Back in Indonesia, where I came from people cut each other...traffic really give you headache. and no way you only have that STOP sign in the intersection like that in there, accident will definetely happening everyday.LOL!

:O You mean you don't queue at all? Tsk tsk. When buying food in the canteen, I do queue up (that is, if I can't find any friends in the queue to buy food for me) because otherwise the teachers would haul me to the principal's office :P While waiting for the bus I usually hang around the interchange to see which of the three buses come first, then I'll go to the start of the queue and wait for my "official position", lol. While shopping I skip queuing altogether because I shop online! Haha.

well... lol... at school in the canteen Queue, i usually do line up and wait for my turn, but if i seen a friend that is infront of me, i just ask them to buy for me so i dont have to wait, most of the time though i do wait in line =d

Yes I do que. Infact in my building where I go for my computer classes we have to stand in a que for the lift. Last wednesday as it hapened, I was the tenth person in the que and the lift capacity is also ten persons at a time apart from the operator. I was secretly glad that at last I can get on to the lift in the coming round, otherwise you have to wait for it to make next trip and that means delay of about eight to ten minutes. Then a very smartly dressed girl walked by and as the lift door opened she started to get in, I could hear myself thinking, "there goes my chance to get on the lift this trip". She was jumping the que. Fortunately the lift operator stopped her and told her to stand in the line. She pretended to be dumb and asked him, "Oh!, is there a line system?" I went in to the lift thinking, how smart, what did she think fifteen of us were doing standing behind each other , playing train? SO you see I do que and I am glad that people have a que system nowdays and follow it, thankfully.

Hi Lord, Well i am from India, well here for almost everything Queue system is there which i dont like, but what to do, and the end of the day we have to get our work done right so we have to do that no go...:(( to achieve something we have to sacrifice something thats the case here which is followed by most of the people over here...:)) Usually , i stand in a queue for my telephone bills sometimes when for some reason i could not do that by online, and most of the time near the bus stop, when i go for my pass renewal, i have to stand for 1 hour easily in queue which is really pathetic, thats why i go early in the morning and try to get my work done with ease...you might be knowing all these things are quite common in India...Is that so in your place as well, i think singapore is not that much far from India right? Anyways thank you so much for posting such a good discussion... Have a great weekend Enjoy Lord:)) Bye... Thanks, Vani.

Yes ..And that too a lot ...!! I holds a BIG part of my life..!! Queuing....!! Its very much normal in the middle class people of my country..!! Queing for bus,Queing in ATM,queuing in store rooms for payment queuing in a clinic...!!And many more..!! If ou don't want to queue then you must be rich so that you'll have to wait for nothing in this life.But we middle class people needs to wait ..!! thats the truth .But now I am used to it. It is very very normal to me. And also the most thing I hate about queuing is waiting in park to get your chance to get to the swinging thing. I really love swinging but waiting is the thing I wait..!! he he :)

I always queue, I see no other way around it really. I'm not one of those rude people who will try to jump the queue.

not often if there are more than 2 people in line and there are registers closed i will not even bother most of the time. and if it looks liek i am going to be waiting more than 5 minutes then i leave even if the cart is full.

Lol! Here you can spend 45 minutes on supermarket and bank queues, they don't have enough ppl working.