In Kate Fox’s Watching the English, she talks about the common (mis)perception that the English always form a line no matter where they are. Based on my eight months of living in London, I don’t think it’s true but that’s obviously what everyone thinks anyway.

So along comes a new blog standinaqueue (stand in a queue…i couldn’t figure out what it said at all until I visited the blog). “Stood in a queue” is documenting his little adventures standing in line across Britain. And just as I suspected, there is no definite line culture here:

Despite having the same ?L? shaped counter as in Cooplands, there seemed to be no queuing culture in this Greggs and instead customers seemed to stand in front of what would be their major purchase. For example, I stood in front of the freshly made sandwiches and an older lady to my left stood in front of the custard tarts.

He is soliciting stories about standing in a queue so I’ll try to pay closer attention to the lines I’m in to see if there’s anything bizarre I can share. No doubt there will be.


The queue at Legoland Windsor.

via noodlepie