Being in line or in a queue is ubiquitous in our daily lives unless you're the king. But then again, there will be some point in one's life that one has to be in a queue no matter how. I don't know about you but I find myself queuing up quite a lot. It could be at the airport, supermarkets, restaurants and also at the washroom. Usually I would want to avoid queues especially those at the cinemas, restaurants and check-in counters and thus I would prefer to buy tickets online in advance, make a reservation or web check-in for my travels.
Sometimes, it wasn't the time wasted that is unbearable but it is the people that makes up the queue or I would like to call it the "queue etiquette". Don't you find it irritating when someone cuts the line or the constant appearance of the "scuze-mees" crowd whom rejoins the people in front of the queue if you happen to line up for a concert admittance or a ride at the theme park? Oh come on, can't you guys just line up together as a group? Emergency situations like going to the loo is acceptable but sometimes we just knew that these people are just lazy to line up and they get their friends to "chup" (a local word for the meaning of "secure") a place for them. This sometimes can irritate me when it comes to queuing up at the loo.
Then there is this dilemma question. I think most of us have done it before at one point of time either naturally or being forced into doing it. One day, I was shopping with my mom at a bakery. There were 2 queues at the cashier and she lined up at the 1st queue and I thought the 2nd queue would be quicker so I told her why not go to the 2nd one. She then asked me to queue at the 2nd cashier counter to see whom will be attended to earlier. And so I went to the 2nd queue. It seemed that mine was the faster one and then when it was my turn to be attended, she walked to my queue and paid for the items.
There may be nothing wrong with this scene but I was deliberating about the whole process after that. Parents constantly ask their children to stand in different queues to save queue time but is this really acceptable? Did any of these situations irked others in the queue? I wondered for quite some time and I thought it would be good to write this down so that you guys could respond to this dilemma. Is this quetiquette of getting others to queue up at different queues at one time acceptable?
Well, I felt a little guilty and embarrassed for doing it but should I really be or am I the only one whom had experienced this before?
Then there is this dilemma question. I think most of us have done it before at one point of time either naturally or being forced into doing it. One day, I was shopping with my mom at a bakery. There were 2 queues at the cashier and she lined up at the 1st queue and I thought the 2nd queue would be quicker so I told her why not go to the 2nd one. She then asked me to queue at the 2nd cashier counter to see whom will be attended to earlier. And so I went to the 2nd queue. It seemed that mine was the faster one and then when it was my turn to be attended, she walked to my queue and paid for the items.
There may be nothing wrong with this scene but I was deliberating about the whole process after that. Parents constantly ask their children to stand in different queues to save queue time but is this really acceptable? Did any of these situations irked others in the queue? I wondered for quite some time and I thought it would be good to write this down so that you guys could respond to this dilemma. Is this quetiquette of getting others to queue up at different queues at one time acceptable?
Well, I felt a little guilty and embarrassed for doing it but should I really be or am I the only one whom had experienced this before?
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