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Haunted house. 8 hours.

Earlier last year I waited an hour and a half for a restaurant that was supposed to be the best Mexican food in that area, plus one of the very few that served molcajete. Turns out by 'best' they meant subpar, tough, and bland. And they didn't even actually have molcajete. I was pissed over the time wasted I spent standing outside in the sun.

I once queued for four hours for Wimbledon tickets. The tennis was good, and it was great to say that I saw some cool matches that year, but any feeling of joy I had was diminished by my aching feet and generally being pissed off about having to queue for something I could watch on TV.

I also queued for about two hours once to get out of Wembley Stadium, because of a tube delay. Anyone that's walked along Wembley Way before will know that getting out (if you need to get to the station) is hell. Nowadays, I park nearby instead, or rent a bike and cycle near a station that isn't fucked.

I know that as a Brit queueing should be in my blood, but I just can't be fucked with any queue that's longer than 4-5 people.

Otakon registration line, probably about 2014. The line wrapped the Baltimore convention center two times.

I've seen many dipsticks camping in lines for days just to buy a piece of crap phone that didn't even have copy/paste capabilities.

The line to the grave

3.5h in line in a very cold Venice to see a Dalí exhibit

Queue for first covid shot at 6 Flags in Northern Virginia. It was a car queue, but there must have been 100 cars in front of me.

Burning Man entry and exit lines, some years ago. Took ages to get in and out!

There was a lego expo near where I used to live last year, and there was an accident at the stadium in the same city, so they crammed the expo all in a different building, a single nursing-home-sized building. What resulted was a super dense line that was the queue equivalent of a snake eating its tail. I got like three hundred pictures out of it, all on Reddit.

At one point, as is my luck it seems, someone held up the line and caused it to descend into complete reorganization because they brought an emotional support dog and got pissed when half the pictures I took happened to have the dog somewhere in it because they were the next person in the line once I got past the first quarter. The scene they made fizzled out the fun.

Tokyo Disney World

8 hours in line to apply for a new identity card.

I was almost 5 hours in line to get Jim Lee's autograph at Barcelona's comic con.

The line to get into the Vatican

US customs circa 2004.

credit agencies.
listen and navigate useless automated prompt then wait an hour for some crony to inform you that you have no immediate control of your credit due to a system error on their end.

Life line.

Probably Soarin'. Probably the one at EPCOT, though the one at California Adventure felt much longer because I was by myself (~~probably~~ younger than I should have been).

Oh, maybe it was the line for Radiator Springs Racers. I remember that line taking forever and when I wanted to go a second time I ended up going myself in the single riders. (~~probably~~ younger than I should have been).

Actually, the line to get into the goddamn plane for both of those trips tlwas longer than any ride at Disney.

Waited along hundreds of people for six + hours to get the cov1d vaccine.