Queue Standing! Whats your longest wait?

Biggins

Just returned from my local branch of the AIB.
There was 15 to 20 people in the queue and there was only one teller on who took 15 minutes to deal with one customer alone.

In total I spent 32 minutes waiting to be served.
(Two others left in anger and frustration)

The experience this morning put a thought in my mind for the forum.
So question for others here - whats the longest you've ever had to stand in a queue waiting to be served?
(The longest I've personally spent is a couple of hours waiting for tickets to go on sale)

Mr Benevolent

Pussy. I waited 9 months to be born. Very, very boring, with lots of odd bumps, muffled sounds and then being shoved out of a wet squidgy tunnel head first. I complained in the strongest terms when I emerged.

seamus

I've spent 45 minutes each in all of the mobile phone operators' shops waiting to be served by somebody.

It's unreal and I avoid doing it if I possibly can.

Otherwise I don't queue as a rule. If I'm waiting more than five minutes, I'll leave.

Kevin Duffy

About 5 hours, but I did get the first public release copy of the Joshua Tree. I dunno why, I hate the band.

annascott

3 hours and 45 minutes in Dublin for concert tickets.

Second was 35 mins in AIB. When I finally got out, I had a parking ticket.

Seachmall

8 hours waiting in an A&E with a friend.

Was knackered so I slept on the toilet for a half hour.

Vicxas

12 hours in A&E with chest pains...

viota

4 hours in a&e when i had trouble breathing

Biggins

annascott wrote: »

...Second was 35 mins in AIB. When I finally got out, I had a parking ticket.

Ouch!

Seachmall wrote: »

8 hours waiting in an A&E with a friend.
Was knackered so I slept on the toilet for a half hour.

Vicxas wrote: »

12 hours in A&E with chest pains...

viota wrote: »

4 hours in a&e when i had trouble breathing

Sorry to hear about those three.

ClareVisitor

I spent about 6 hours in a queue waiting to get tickets for the 1993 FA Cup semi-final replay. They went on sale the day after the drawn final and you had to queue up at Arsenal's stadium. The queue went round three sides of the ground by the time I got there, all good-natured enough though.

jester77

The most forgettable one was waiting for a bus where there was no bus shelter and it was lashing out of the heavens. I ran down to the bus stop knowing that the next scheduled bus was due in 5 mins. 5 mins go by... no bus... 30 mins... no bus, soaked to the bone at this stage. Next bus was due in another 10 mins, thought fair enough, I'll wait it out. Of course the 10 mins come and go and yes, no bus. Another 20 mins pass and a bus shows up even though there should have been a bus 20 mins previously and another wasn't due for another 20 mins.

Pissed off, soaked and miserable I ask the driver if he's meant to be the 5:20, 6:00 or 6:40 bus. His reply: "I'm the in between bus"

Latchy

Nothing that stands out more than an other. I've done a few hrs wait at hospitals in A&E , my fair share of queing at airport check ins and the usual queus at banks, post office,supermarkets etc .I think the british have the art of queing down to a tee which has as much to do with a quicker turn over at counters than actually waiting ages to be served .

Turtyturd

About 8 hours to get into the pit to see Green Day in the Point.

Another fairly long one was over 2 hours to get on the Spider-man ride in Florida...worth every minute.

BluesBerry

4 hrs to see Jedward when they went around the country last year singing their albums :pac:

Richard Hillman

3 hours in A&E. I did queue for 8 hours for AC/DC tickets but wouldnt count that as i just turned up early rather than being forced to wait. I avoid queues like the plague. If a company makes me wait for something i will just go elsewhere as it is clear they are not efficient enough for my valued custom.

JustAddWater

Turtyturd wrote: »

About 8 hours to get into the pit to see Green Day in the Point.

Another fairly long one was over 2 hours to get on the Spider-man ride in Florida...worth every minute.

they have fastpasses now! :P

Uncle Mclovin

9 hours queuing to get into a Metallica concert in the RDS and I don't even like them. We couldn't leave the queue and I only had a crunchie to eat in those nine hours. I nearly died of the hunger.

Seachmall

Uncle Mclovin wrote: »

9 hours queuing to get into a Metallica concert in the RDS and I don't even like them. We couldn't leave the queue and I only had a crunchie to eat in those nine hours. I nearly died of the hunger.

Should've ordered a pizza.

jimthemental

Got charged down, pinned against a wall and a gate and then trampled on by a bull. Waited 5 hours before I was seen in A&E and I was in a bad way as I remember. I was okay afterward but if there was a small amount of internal bleeding it could have been a problem by the time I was seen. Just lucky I'm an animal I suppose:cool:


PS: We castrated him after and took him to the factory a year later. I really enjoyed those steaks.

prinz

About 25 hours spread over three days with my OH in A&E, with a lot of ups and downs along the way. Other than that about three hours outside the US embassy about 8 years ago. I remember as a kid queuing in a car trying to board a ferry over in France and we were there for about 8 hours or something (ferry broke down etc etc)

AfterDusk

4 hours for space Mountain in EuroDisney. We did have to go on a public holiday...........

Azureus

Metallica in he RDS for me too. Got there at 6am, got in at about 2/3. Really wish we had brought supplies.
Another was queueing in a&e for a bad ankle injury-people kept coming in with serious head injuries etc from drunken falls and fights so obviously had to be seen first. Wouldnt have been in a&e only I really needed to get it seen to and no doctor was open for days. We were waiting for about 14 hours in total to get it cast etc

GavRedKing

Uncle Mclovin wrote: »

9 hours queuing to get into a Metallica concert in the RDS and I don't even like them. We couldn't leave the queue and I only had a crunchie to eat in those nine hours. I nearly died of the hunger.

About the same as me and a group of friends to get pit passes, coupled with a hangover it was horrible, as soon as we had them straight to the hotel for a kip.

MitchKoobski

Queued for 2 hours with huge camping gear to get into Oxegen two years ago. Came up on a bus with a bunch of other people, and had to queue up behind everyone else who showed up on a bus.

Never again.

gaz wac

two and a half days on standby, waiting for a flight from San Fran to Seattle because of snow..oh wait, title says 'standing'..sorry, i sat for most of this !!

Ticktactoe

6 hours in A&E with fractured wrist only to be told is was bruised and take panadol. Called back three days later, waited for another 4 hours so to be told it was fractured in two places and was then referred to another hospital. Long story short... 6 hours at any one time.

stupidusername

the queue to sign on! in limerick it was terrible. two hours or more it could be.

*awaits angry angry people*

also stansted airport, security line - almost 2 hours.

even though i was in a wheelchair I think in the A&E it was about an hour/hour and a half when i broke my ankle.

NTMK

5 hours with a broken leg and heavily bleeding would have been longer if i didnt pass out from the blood loss

Latchy

When the server went down on boards last year ( sounds kinky that ) .

I /we had to wait many hrs to post again .

sausages79

About 10 hours outside Student Union shop in UCD for J1 tickets - but the fact you could smoke indoors then and we had cans helped :-)

jaffacakesyum

About 8 or 9 hours to get into the pit for gigs. (Huge music fan lol)

Other than that, I think a lot of the rides in Orlando in Florida I waited about 2+ hours

secrecy_ie

I spent an hour queuing for a bag of chips at a gig in Marley Park. It was the shortest queue in the whole place, didn't bother queuing for a pint as it took most people two hours!

spoonface

Biggins wrote: »

Just returned from my local branch of the AIB.
There was 15 to 20 people in the queue and there was only one teller on who took 15 minutes to deal with one customer alone.

Was it anything you could have done without going into the branch or queueing e.g. use quicklodge or post your cheques for lodgements.

Biggins

spoonface wrote: »

Was it anything you could have done without going into the branch or queueing e.g. use quicklodge or post your cheques for lodgements.

No, had to see someone in particular with forms besides money.

phill106

Seachmall wrote: »

8 hours waiting in an A&E with a friend.

Was knackered so I slept on the toilet for a half hour.

31 minutes waiting for the toilet...DAM YOU! *shakes fist*

ToxicPaddy

About 6 hours in an airport in the canaries wondering where our plane was.. it was 3 days after 9/11 and the place was in chaos. Was seriously thinking of going back to the hotel, checking in for another week and waiting until it all calmed down.

Bloody crappy airport where they ran out of food and nearly all drinks in the shop and bar in the place.. :mad:

builttospill

3 hours.

Big Thunder Mountain, Euro Disney Paris, 1992.

We were dropping like flies but I managed to get out of there somehow. Others weren't as lucky. My Goofy dog tags are still wrapped around my neck. They're my cross to bear. The horror...

I still have flashbacks, man.

Sunnyisland

When I was a young apprentice I was sent over to a man to ask him for a long stand, I was there quite a while :-)

Mint Sauce

About 9 hours overnight for U2 tickets, and about the same time queuing outside Wembely Staduim so I could be near the front for a Micheal Jackson concert (already had the tickets but seating/standing were unreserved).

Also 3 to 4 hours on two seperate visits to A&E.

stek

4 and 1/2 hours queing at christ church place to see Obama's speach, and didnt even see it in the end!!
100% the guards fault, while everybody queued orderly they let people enter from the sides, still angry with them!!

phasers

5 Hours outside Easons in Liffey Valley to get the last Harry Potter book :cool:

I was one of the first 20 people so I got the book for free, and a free goody bag.

Sir Oxman

~2 hours outside the Nou Camp - no match on, just to visit the stadium.
Boiled the head off me that did but I wouldn't give up.

Susie_Q

About 4 hours in Beaumount A&E with a fishbone stuck in my throat. It was jammed against my gag reflex so I spent four hours retching and gagging into a bucket. Took about 30 seconds to remove it once I got seen to which made the wait even worse to bear.

The moral of the story is to be careful when eating fish!

IamtheWalrus

4 hours in the cold and wet outside the nite club Fabric in London. Didn't get in.

Seachmall

Susie_Q wrote: »

About 4 hours in Beaumount A&E [...] Took about 30 seconds to remove it once I got seen to which made the wait even worse to bear.

That's the worst thing. When I was waiting with my friend for 8 hours in the A&E we were waiting for the doctor to arrive (the on-call doctor was sleeping busy). Once she arrived she called my friend in, told the nurse to stitch him up (his face was split open) and sent him on his way in less than 10 minutes.

We waited 8 hours for a doctor to tell a nurse (of which there were many hanging around when we were waiting) to do a 10 minute job.

Big Knox

18 hours in A&E in Waterford Regional.

Had tore ligaments in my Ankle pretty bad and the place was packed. About 10 hours in just as I was about to be called a horrific car crash came in which I later found out 1 person had died and 2 were critical.

That changed my tune fairly quickly it has to be said, I was seriously pissed off and frustrated but hearing something like that made me realise my ankle could very much wait. Was absolutely wrecked when I got home though, was a very draining experience.

Misty Chaos

Probably about 6 hours in A&E, getting chest pains checked out following what I know was a severe panic attack a few days earlier ( turned it wasn't heart related, thank fcuk )

Apart from that, my longest was probably an hour or 2 to get on a rode n oakwood.

cesc77

Confab wrote: »

Pussy. I waited 9 months to be born. Very, very boring, with lots of odd bumps, muffled sounds and then being shoved out of a wet squidgy tunnel head first. I complained in the strongest terms when I emerged.

The water torture,constant tapping on your head by your father over the course of 9 months has obviously had an effect on you:pac:

Tipsy McSwagger

Confab wrote: »

Pussy. I waited 9 months to be born. Very, very boring, with lots of odd bumps, muffled sounds and then being shoved out of a wet squidgy tunnel head first. I complained in the strongest terms when I emerged.

Who were you queuing with

Sunnyisland

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Who were you queuing with

Mr pussy

ladysarastro

Half an hour for the last harry potter book at 12 on the release date.