Here in Singapore, if you say, “does the line end here” people mostly just look at you with a confused look. That’s because it’s called a “queue” around these parts.
Sometimes the queues can be a bit frustrating.
Why?
Because they’re often long and move very slowly. Especially the taxi queues.
And there’s no reason for it.
Long taxi queue at Takashimaya
Instead of allowing multiple people to board multiple taxis simultaneously, the taxi queue directors only allow passengers to board one car at a time.
Argh.
It drives me crazy!
The queue can be a hundred people long, like at Takashimaya tonight… but, everyone still boards one car at a time.
Am I the ONLY person who notices the queue could move five times faster with a minor process change?
I miss lines. Queues are too slow.
2:40 pm on January 25th, 2010
as an englishman i’m afraid it has to be a “queue” but agree – definite room for process improvement.
7:44 pm on September 28th, 2010
when i went a couple of months ago i thought the exact same thing.
7:47 pm on September 28th, 2010
when i went a couple of months ago i thought the exact same thing. but here in australia we have a mix of all language (because it costs so much to make our own TV shows so we import them from america england canada etc) so we say que or line, so when i went i had no trouble with the wierd words… except la. i still dont get that word …