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The British queue up and Americans wait in line,except for New Yorkers,who wait on line.No one seems to know the reason for this social idiom.It is something to ponder while waiting in/on line.
Queues are a grim reality of city life,While there seems to be no consensus on the city's worst line,the ones mentioned most often in talks here and there were lunch time lines at banks and post offices and,among younger people,movie lines and college-registration lines.
In any line the fundamental rule is "first come,first served",or what social scientists call "distributive justice",Exceptions may be made,say,in fancy restaurans where the headwaiters have their favorites,but,in general the rule prevails.
In theory,then,everyone should have an equal interest in keeping an orderly line.In practice,the interest varies depending on one's position in line.In most cases the strongest protests come from the immediate victims or the poeple directly behind the line jumpers.Poeple farther down the line complain less or not at all,even though they had been equally penalized by losing a place.
The British queue up and Americans wait in line,except for New Yorkers,who wait on line.No one seems to know the reason for this social idiom.It is something to ponder while waiting in/on line.
Queues are a grim reality of city life,While there seems to be no consensus on the city's worst line,the ones mentioned most often in talks here and there were lunch time lines at banks and post offices and,among younger people,movie lines and college-registration lines.
In any line the fundamental rule is "first come,first served",or what social scientists call "distributive justice",Exceptions may be made,say,in fancy restaurans where the headwaiters have their favorites,but,in general the rule prevails.
In theory,then,everyone should have an equal interest in keeping an orderly line.In practice,the interest varies depending on one's position in line.In most cases the strongest protests come from the immediate victims or the poeple directly behind the line jumpers.Poeple farther down the line complain less or not at all,even though they had been equally penalized by losing a place.
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