This is the kind of scenario that strikes fear into any rational thinking man.
Four different holes in the wall, four different queues.
The queue on the far left is out of shot, but I can state that there are three people in this queue including the hole in the wall user. The queue directly in front is the longest, with four people in it.
I have yet to make my choice of which queue to take, but ideally I want to take the queue that will cause the least amount of disappointment. I quickly rule out the queue furthest on the right.
Yes, there is only one person in it. But this must be for a reason otherwise there would be other people queuing behind the gentleman. I quickly deduce that this machine has probably run out of money and that the fellow will soon find out and be forced to join a longer queue and therefore spend even more time than necessary at the holes in the wall.
I also rule out the queue second from the left. It may have only two people in it, but the tree is in the way and would force me to stand too close to the man with the bendy knees. If I stood behind the tree it would look like I thought the tree was part of the queue, and this would make me look foolish.
I could stand to the right of the tree, but then there would be an awkward moving out of the way when the person at the front of either this queue, or even the queue to the right, had their cash in hand and wanted to leave the hole in the wall vicinity.
So it’s a choice between the three man queue or the four man queue. I could choose the three man queue but what if someone in front of me wanted to do more than take out money, like top up his phone for example, then I would wish I’d taken the four man queue. And by then if I decided to change queues I’d look like a stressy London type for whom time is money.
And so I choose the longest queue. If it takes a long time to get to the front then it wouldn’t be a surprise as this is the longest queue. Anything more would be a bonus.
This is the queue with the potential to cause the least amount of disappointment.
