Queue Roundup

Today by email, standinaqueue has received its first guest entry from Gary Wood who reports on a queue in Boots in Edinburgh.

As an introduction to his post, I thought it would be interesting to have a look at queuing bloggers from around the world.

Here, beautifully photographed in 1985, we find a queue in Romania. Although here is an American who wonders in his March 15th 2006 post why, after 50 years of queuing, the Romanians are so bad at doing it now.

Over in India we find out what the queues are like at a check-in in Delhi, and there is also a great post here about a queue jumper in Bangalore airport with some interesting comments about the responsibility of a society to prevent such bad manners. If you think, after reading this, that India is too frightful a place to visit, hopefully you will be comforted by this blogger’s comments on the beauty of the unregulated queues at Mambalam railway station.

A very interesting article, I believe American, which analyses the reactions of a queue to queue jumpers. Although I am slightly disheartened from reading the comments to hear how those from our former colonies are so enthusiastic to queue jump. Another example is this post which gives tips of how to pass through the queuing process quicker when enrolling for Sydney University.

Here, a cynical air traveller wonders why her queue is taking so long, and Quentin Stafford-Fraser wonders when businesses will learn that a queue of any size is an indication of inefficiency, along with a great photo of an airport queue.

Don Paskini, a junior spin doctor for the Labour machine, poses a question: With a five hour queue for people without passes, who gets theirs first? This blogger believes that women with babies should have their own queues, and here are the ruthlesss thoughts of an economist on supermarket queuing.

Mr Joshua Blankenship is stuck in a queue in Texas, and here we have a blogger’s photographs of queuing traffic in Cape Town.

And finally, no roundup is complete without a video from youtube. Here we have a Malaysian motorist caught jumping a queue of traffic leaving the motorway.