The Etiquette of Queuing
I have written about queuing before and everybody who knows me, is probably aware of my lack of patience for queue jumpers and people who cannot stand in an orderly queue while receiving a service – in our old schools days, we used to call it ‘short fat queue’. There are characteristics some of them unkind that are normally attributed to the British (and the English in particular). In the language that they were so kind to share with the rest of the world, it is called stereotyping. For instance my uncle insists to this day that the majority of the British people are very condescending and behave like the Empire still exists. Of course, they, like people of any country have some behaviours or characteristics that are only common to them, although it would be wise not to lump people together based on the conduct of one or two of their kin. During my brief stay on the isles in the last decade, I found that many things which are considered to be typically British are picked from songs,...