I’ve been waiting in line to die for the last 43yrs, I’m not in rush, so it’s okay.
The first time I was at Disney Land after they replaced the People Mover Tram in Tomorrow Land with that Crash Test Dummy ride. Waited like 2 and half hours for a 6 minute ride that wasn’t even that impressive.
But no. I once got to the DMV an hour before they opened and only just barely got to the counter before they stopped serving people at 5pm.
Wtf
Does waiting on the phone count? If so, six hours to get someone at the IRS, so they could fix the mistake in 2 minutes.
That’s wild. I feel like the phone network is too dicey, like my call would have dropped at some point over six hours
Back in the before times, I sat in line for 36 hours for front row seats for a David Bowie concert in 1987.
It turned into a street party for the 100 or so people in the line.
7 hours at the DMV only to get rejected even after checking documents when I arrived because I needed another one.
Never went back to that hellhole office and found another one that took 15 minutes.
Line to vote in 2020 Presidential election.
Most democratic country:
Fuck human rights no water for you
I once waited 3.5 hours for free pancakes at IHOP. I had a shit week and just wanted some free pancakes, but they accidentally crossed my name out before even seating me, so I saw multiple groups arrive after, eat, and leave before my dumbass thought “maybe I should say something.”
Also, my phone was dead for the last 2 hours of that.
Yeah but IHop has some pretty good pancakes tho.
They were. And I still tipped the amount the pancakes would have been
Waiting for my checks from trickle-down economics to roll in.
Life line.
Probably not the longest, but the most ridiculous. We have a big free African music festival in our city and there are loads of different food stalls with great food. There was a Kenyan one that my best friend really wanted to go to as she lived in Kenya when she was a kid, and the queue was big which usually means good food. However once we were in the queue we realised the queue was moving really slowly… No matter, it must be worth it when we get there surely… After 45 mins I really wanted to go somewhere else but the sunk cost fallacy and the thought of getting in another queue made me stay… After over an hour we finally get to the front and realise that the reason it’s so slow is because they have the most illogical ordering system that doesn’t make sense, and even the staff seem totally confused. An hour and a half later we finally get our food and it’s ok. Just ok. In a big field full of amazing food we managed to pick the most mediocre one, and stupidly queued along with loads of other stupid queueing people for no good reason except being in a queue.
I thought waiting a line with 30 to 40 people ahead was a nightmare, until I saw the Brits queuing for a mile to see the deceased queen. That day I realized no one can beat the Brits at queuing.
I think it was over 12hrs wait time at one point.
Traffic. I25 north from Denver. 3 hours from when I realized my fuck-up to the next possible exit thanks to a flatbed truck across all 3 lanes trying to remove a white suv that was somehow high centered perpendicular on the concrete median with no visible damage.
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Was the area you hiked worth the wait?
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I was a professional line stander in DC for many years. I think the longest wait was probably close to 72 hours.
What was it for?
It was back in the 90’s and I think it was a senate hearing for Microsoft, so Bill Gates was there himself.
He should have hired a professional like you too instead of waiting for that long.
Bill gates wasn’t there himself he was testifying, so many lawyers hire line standers to wait for them. It’s pretty cool cause it gives jobs to lots of people who couldn’t hold down a regular job.
3 hours in the middle of the night in a crowded mall.
It was Cataclysm’s release night. People were packed in, you had groups of them with laptops huddling together to play while we waited. Eventually the GameStop employees came out and started doing a trivia contest with some WoW-themed tat as rewards.
And then we were left with Cataclysm and the largest die-off of wow ever.
