One thing that really bugs me is queueing! Everywhere you go you have to queue to get what you want. We must waste days of our lives queueing.
I went to see Kate Nash the other night at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. Now, as my friend and I were seated we arrived after the doors opened thinking that the queue would have gone down.
Normally for gigs I get standing tickets but there were none left which meant we didn't bother getting there early to get a good spot. But, we arrived at the venue at about 7:30pm (doors opened at 7) and the queue was huge! The thing is, I am fine for queueing up for gigs when I am standing because fair enough the earlier you get there the better your chance of getting a good place near the front. But when you have been allocated a seat, thus eliminating the need to queue, what's the point? It isn't as if the seated people have to rush to get a good seat near the front because everyone knows where they are sitting, so why not have two seperate queues? One for standing and one for seated! Maybe this is too logical, or perhaps the reason would be because they may have to put more staff on the doors if they did that?
But, it isn't just gig queueing. Any queuing at all, why do we always have to queue? At supermarkets when they only open three tills and there are three huge queues and about fifteen empty checkouts with no staff on them. Many queues could be avoided, or at least cut down simply by employing more staff. But that's the problem! Companies do not want to hire more staff, thus increasing their wage bill and decreasing their profit just to make our lives easier do they?
The thing is, queueing would be much easier if you didn't have queue jumpers. You know who I mean, the people who think they can just walk in front of you and cut in line even though you have been waiting there for half an hour and have just got to the front. Who do they think they are? I don't care if your friend is there, or if you need to dash, a queue is not there to be cut into!
I went to another gig a few weeks ago in London, to see Mika. There were these foreign people who had just arrived at the venue. By this time we had already been queueing for a good few hours, they decide to try and cut in front of us. This happened several times during the day, and surprise, surprise the majority of them were foreign. Is it only the British that know the concept of queuing? All I have to say to them is I hope to god that those people do not represent the whole country's attitude towards queuing!
2 comments:
What the hell are you on about woman, i haven't been in a queueueue since the fall of the Berlin wall. And those days were awsome, the best social environment, waiting in a queue for tofu salamy, and soy milk, for ten hours, that time was used for unraveling the misteries of the universe, the good old days. Dang
Well, you are very lucky to have not been in a queue since then! Queuing is an awful thing which deserves to be mentioned on the blog! Thanks for the comment!
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