What do you call it when you're at the store waiting behind other people?

[Train]

that's what happens when you live where no one else wants to live.

I don't want to live where people are treated like cattle.

Places like NY and LA drive me up a wall. If I can literally reduce the amount of my life spent waiting in lines or traffic by YEARS by living in a Midwest city, not to mention send a hell of a lot less money for the same thing, I'm more than happy to do it.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Queued. In the queue.

In line. Waiting in line. Etc.

I think queue is perfectly fine and acceptable. But, certain Americans lose their shit when someone uses queue.

 

[02ranger]

Queued. In the queue.

In line. Waiting in line. Etc.

I think queue is perfectly fine and acceptable. But, certain Americans lose their shit when someone uses queue.

Which Americans?

 

[dank69]

Where did this come from? I don't understand why people say "on line" instead of "in line". Unless there is a literal line on the floor and you're standing on it, shouldn't it be waiting IN line?

I don't know where it came from, I just have a feeling that this is the answer the OP was fishing for.

 

[Newell Steamer]

Which Americans?

The ones I work with.

I've got herp-a-derps choke full of herp and overflowing with derp.

 

[02ranger]

The ones I work with.

I've got herp-a-derps choke full of herp and overflowing with derp.

They've gotta be herp-a-derps if they lose it over "queue". lol What do they call their Netflix Queue? Or is it only certain uses they go all higgledy piggledy over?

 

[Newell Steamer]

They've gotta be herp-a-derps if they lose it over "queue". lol What do they call their Netflix Queue? Or is it only certain uses they go all higgledy piggledy over?

No shit is lost over Netflix.

 

[_Rick_]

Buffering in the FIFO.

 

[02ranger]

No shit is lost over Netflix.

That's good. You have to be careful to conserve your shit, cause you never know when you're gonna need to lose it again.

 

[cronos]

Posting here.

 

[JManInPhoenix]

My time to read the National Enquirer ...

 

[Ichinisan]

Masturbation.

 

[preCRT]

Waiting in line & not happy about it. I have little patience, especially for someone holding up the line because they decided to pay with check. Who still uses checks?

 

[ThatsABigOne]

I call it...

"Maybe the two attendants at the "self serve" checkouts could open a couple of other registers instead?"

And remove self serve checkouts. Often times people waste more time trying to check out rather than letting the attendant doing the scanning.

 

[Ronstang]

In the US it is "standing in line", in the UK you are "in the queue", and in the Netherlands it is an excuse to push on the person in front of you!

 

[Phoenix86]

And remove self serve checkouts. Often times people waste more time trying to check out rather than letting the attendant doing the scanning.

Sure, but you have 4+ isles/attendant. If they are 1/3rd as fast, it's still better for you in the long run. The places that have it setup smart have ~8 self serve registers. If they have 2 it blows. Badly.

 

[blankslate]

In line.

I notice for a lot of people it's "smart phone time"


...

 

[Red Storm]

Was in Canada not too long ago, in a Tim Horton's and a guy walked in and asked me "Is this the lineup?"

So I guess in Canada they call it a lineup.

 

[cronos]

Was in Canada not too long ago, in a Tim Horton's and a guy walked in and asked me "Is this the lineup?"

So I guess in Canada they call it a lineup.

Or maybe he's late for team meeting! :biggrin:

 

[slag]

Objects queue, people wait.

 

[Brian Stirling]

In NYC its legal to shoot someone that's wasting time on a line. You know the folks that wait till they get to the register before they consider what they want and spend minutes discussing it -- in NYC you can legally shoot them. I think this law should spread...


Brian

 

[ViviTheMage]

line or queue

next question

 

[Ns1]

When I'm in Britain or any former British colony: get in queue
When I'm in US: get in line