I asked ChatGPT. Which nations have a propensity for queuing neatly? It turns out that amongst nations listed were included the UK, Japan Singapore.
I was in a queue earlier this week. We were mostly very patient, but what changed that were people taking a long time to deal with matters that really should be dealt with during non-peak times, especially as the people who were at the counter were not tied to being there at peak time. It didn’t help of course that I was time limited and was becoming apparent that I wouldn’t reach the counter in time.
Nobody said anything of course, but the lady in front of me was rolling her eyes at me. I broke away from the queue.
Why am I writing about queueing today? We went over to Portsmouth via ferry. The queue seems to be one of the few situations where it can be chaotic and not raise temperatures. It was orderly in the sense there was no jostling.
As we were standing there, my mind was drawn back to driving on motorways and the ways in which traffic can clump and traffic flow in general. There’s probably a deeply mathematical explanation, way beyond me. But interesting nonetheless.
Bills Posts 