Driven to MadnessCaptain Placid asks: What annoying things do significant others, workmates and other people in general do that drive you up the wall? Do you want to kill your other half over their obsessive fridge magnet collection? Driven to distraction over your manager's continued use of Comic Sans (The Font of Champions)? Tell us.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Oct 2012, 12:11)
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Queueing Around CornersWhy do queues have to be straight?
I was in Oxford a week or so back waiting for a bus in one of their infernal "Park and Ride" car parks. The queue stretched out of the area with the bus shelters and back into the car park past the parked cars straight into the roadway. So I reasoned that the queue should have a bend since queueing across the road did not seem to be a particularly safe activity to be engaged in, and I therefore decided to try to create one in order that the end of the queue would run along the road rather than across it. The next bunch of people decided that straight was the way to go, and thus the idea of a bend was destroyed.
But why? Why queue in such a stupid manner?
The same thing happens all the time in supermarkets (who really ought to provide a little more space for this sort of thing at the checkouts instead of them just assuming that there won't be much need for it with a whole two people working them) with people backed up down the aisles and obstructing anyone trying to move around in the area. And I've seen it happening with a road, not part of a car park, an actual real road in an industrial park with 44 ton lorries belting past. It was people queueing at a burger van with the end of the queue spilling out onto the road past the parked cars and at the mercy of the oncoming traffic. It wasn't like there was no space on the grass verge or the pavement.
I rather like the Spanish way of dealing with queueing. They just mill around, no lines. When someone turns up they yell "Who's last?" and when the person who replies gets served they know they're next.
(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 0:45, 2 replies)
Queueing in the wrong placeWhat really rips my knitting is a bunch of people queueing in the WRONG place then acting all indignant when you go to the front of the queue in the RIGHT place. Frequently happens in the bank with people standing on the wrong side of the 'PLEASE QUEUE HERE' sign.
(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 7:51, closed)
Cash machines...Why not queue along the wall, rather than across the pavement blocking it for all.
Nothing common about common sense.
(, Sun 7 Oct 2012, 12:33, closed)
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