(21:28:52) | England is still the best country in the world for queue worshippers. Many
(21:28:52) | tourists include standing in queues in their itinerary and some British ?migr?s have been
(21:28:52) | known to renounce their adopted countries just to return to the homeliness of standing in
(21:28:52) | lines. Mind you, it’s nothing like the great days of the war years when rationing filled
(21:28:52) | every High Street with stretches of people. There was a real spirit about it then. People
(21:28:52) | were even known to line up outside shops that had nothing anyone really wanted. Buses
(21:28:53) | do keep up the tradition, ganging up so as to leave the longest possible time between
(21:28:53) | each red cluster.
(21:28:53) | Personally, I hate queues, especially those in banks. In America, everyone
(21:28:53) | entering a bank goes to the end of a single line. Then, as each clerk’s window is cleared,
(21:28:53) | the next person has his proper turn. In this country, each window has its own queue, and
(21:28:53) | you can bet that the innocent-looking person I pick to stand behind has a bag hidden
(21:28:53) | about him somewhere, with ?5’s worth of coppers that will all have to be painstakingly
(21:28:53) | counted.