Queuing dilemma
Published Date:
21 August 2008
REGARDING mystery of the Oliver Cross puzzle for a reader who wondered how you can be second in the queue for a cash machine with no-one ahead of you, I did save the item for later until I had time to work it out.
It happens in my bank often, where some people leave a gap when there is a long queue past the outer door and won't move until you lean on them.
Some have pushchairs or children blocking the alley. Some start filling in forms and expect to keep their place as well. Also some go to the advice counter and hope they can jump a few places in the queue.
This is all because it's not consider-ed fashionable to make the S-bend by the rail which stops queue jumping, so we nervous and not-so-nervous types have to watch like a hawk to keep our rightful place in the queue, while bank staff can smirk or grin when seeing a fuming or red-faced customer who has been cheated out of their rightful place in the queue.
Fashion has a lot answer for, in this topsy-turvy world of ours.
A HAGUE, Bellbrooke Grove, Leeds
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Last Updated:
21 August 2008 1:28 PM
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Location:
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