I heard that people in Israel do not line up; instead, they mill about. However, they do remember which order they appeared in. Then, when the train arrives (or whatever), then they queue up, based upon their order of arrival. Is something like this true?
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Yes it is true. This is a 3rd world country. What do you expect? N.B. For those who get angry when I claim that Israel is a 3rd world country, I admit here that it is on the top of the list of 3rd world countries. Just next to Bangladesh. Happy now?
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I've been on trains before, and I do not remember waiting in a line. Well, I'm currently in New Orleans, and that describes how we wait for the streetcar, except we do not care who got there first. Oh, and Dan Dan, can you provide a link that says Israel is 3rd world. Something of intellectual merit, i.e., not you.
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There are all kinds. In some places where the waiting is long, you usually take a number and wait until it's your turn. In some of these places people queue up before they're opened, so sometime they just queue up, sometimes they write down the order on which they arrived, and sometimes they just remember who came before who. I haven't seen a queue for the train in Israel, I don't think there are such queues.
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Isn't that method of queuing brought by immigrants from Soviet Russia, the making-a-list style of queuing? There, on occasion, queues would take so long that it was necessary to keep a list. Quite a civilised way to queue, if you ask me.
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It is generally accepted in Israel that if you're the last person in line and someone shows up behind you, says they're next, and then they leave, you're their official place-holder. So when they show up again and cut in front of the people that have lined up behind you, they'll expect you to stand by them when they say they were there first. I used to find this particularly irritating, but now I'm used to it. Also, sometimes people don't make a line and instead just try to shove each other to get to the front. But the situation you are speaking of, I have never seen.
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Not mine In London, people stand in line. And the lines there have a beginning, middle and end - in that order. Clear as can be. In Israel, you have an amorphous grouping that's called a line, and you can rarely tell where it begins or ends. Also, in London, people don't point at someone who's standing in the middle of the line and say, "We're together." There is individualism, limited though it may be. Each person has his place in line. Say your relative or your acquaintance or your good buddy wants to stand next to you, for whatever reason; he'll leave his more advanced spot in line and go backward. The lines at passport control in London are separated by these flimsy little ropes and no one tries to cut in. In Israel, the lines are separated by barbed wire, and there are always infiltrators. But that's okay. Really, it's okay. It just means I'm home .http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097404.html
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A while back, when I was in Angola, I had to drop a cigarette on the ground to get ahead in line. Israel is exactly the same. I guess you have to let a few loose change to hit the ground if you want the crowd to disappear. Steel
