Search This Blog
Friday, 1 August 2014
The curse of the queue
I suffer from queue-rage. It's not the queuing itself that bothers me, although I can't say I like it - it's queue-jumping. It's a primal thing - I have no control over the anger that builds when someone DARES to push in (or try). How I've survived several trips to Disney, I don't know - you can guarantee I'll have been close to exploding on at least five occasions a day. Anyway, when I saw a sign at Ocean Park saying that queue-jumping was prohibited, I was ecstatic - sure enough, everybody queued very nicely, and not once did I have even a small flutter of rage. Likewise, when we started queuing for the Peak Tram, I was very impressed - the queue seemed very orderly, and someone came to put up new barriers as soon as the queue extended past them. This all changed, however, once we got past the turnstiles - what was once a queue became a crowd. And as soon as the tram arrived, the crowd became a free-for-all. Even though we were originally halfway through the 'queue', we were pushed and shoved out of the way until the tram was full, leaving just us and another family still standing on the platform dejectedly. The ten-minute wait for the next tram was annoying - what was worse was the fact that WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON THAT TRAM!!!! Anger building at this point... So then they let the next lot of people onto the platform, and an old Chinese man came and stood next to us. 'Oh well,' I thought. 'At least we'll be the first on. It's only fair.' Ha. As soon as the tram arrived, the pushing and shoving started again. Everyone was determined to get on the tram first. Including the little old man. Not to be outdone, I put my arm out to block his way and make sure the boys got on first. You should have heard him tutting. 'We were FIRST!!!' I protested, sounding like a five-year-old. I managed to get me and the boys onto the tram first. He managed to push Lee out of the way. I managed to make myself look both childish and mean to old people. Moral: don't be fooled by Chinese queues. And try and avoid standing in a queue with me.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment