Queue Standing! Whats your longest wait?

secrecy_ie · 12-07-2011 02:13PM

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 · 12-07-2011 02:20PM

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 · 12-07-2011 03:00PM

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 · 12-07-2011 03:02PM

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 · 12-07-2011 03:03PM

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 · 12-07-2011 03:20PM

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 · 12-07-2011 03:22PM

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 · 12-07-2011 03:27PM

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 · 12-07-2011 03:34PM

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 · 12-07-2011 04:12PM

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 · 12-07-2011 04:26PM

~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 · 12-07-2011 04:41PM

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 · 12-07-2011 04:44PM

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

Seachmall · 12-07-2011 05:08PM

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 · 12-07-2011 05:18PM

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 · 12-07-2011 06:09PM

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 · 12-07-2011 06:19PM

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 · 12-07-2011 06:25PM

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 · 12-07-2011 06:47PM

Tipsy McSwagger wrote: »

Who were you queuing with

Mr pussy

ladysarastro · 12-07-2011 06:59PM

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

entropi · 12-07-2011 07:00PM

Outside of a hospital: 8+ hours waiting in line for pit passes for Metallica at Marlay Park two years ago (started queueing at 7:30am, wasnt let in until after 3:30/4pm...me and my mates got the passes though:D).

In a hospital: less than 2 weeks ago I was sat in A&E with my mam, waited around 30 mins to be seen by the triage nurse, then another 15hrs to get her seen by someone more qualified. She got home sometime around the 26hr mark.

CorkMan · 12-07-2011 07:05PM

Planned queue: 11 hours for a Kanye West ticket, a good couple of people there aswell.

Unplanned queue: 50 minutes for a bus. (I sometimes have to wait more than 3 hours at the Doctors, but that is semi-planned)

Sir Oxman · 12-07-2011 07:07PM

The hospital queue stories are pure horror.

CorkMan · 12-07-2011 07:21PM

Actually, after reading all the A&E posts they brought of memories back when I was waiting there.

I had to wait over a day once to see a very specific Doctor about a problem I had, a general Doc wouldn't do.

mattjack · 12-07-2011 07:32PM

15 months....st pats ,young offenders....

fuerte1976 · 12-07-2011 07:35PM

after a 4 hour flight to fuerteventura for xmas 4 years ago I then had to q for 4.5 hours @ the hertz counter for a car. Never used hertz anywhere in the world since :mad:

Stinicker · 12-07-2011 08:26PM

fuerte1976 wrote: »

after a 4 hour flight to fuerteventura for xmas 4 years ago I then had to q for 4.5 hours @ the hertz counter for a car. Never used hertz anywhere in the world since :mad:

I'd say the longest I've waited would be in the region of four hours for the Kingda Ka which was the worlds tallest rollercoaster at the time in Six Flags, New Jersey. It was only open a few weeks back in 2005 and the queues were massive. I was sorry afterwards that I hadn't spent more time on the other rides instead and even more gutted when I discovered upon leaving that I could have paid extra for a fastpass system to skip the queue.

fuerte1976 · 12-07-2011 08:32PM

[QUOTE (I sometimes have to wait more than 3 hours at the Doctors, but that is semi-planned)[/QUOTE]

I lived in Cork for 8 years & things were never that bad !

My name is URL · 12-07-2011 08:58PM

I don't think I've ever stood in a queue for longer than 30 minutes. Don't understand why people are happy to stand for hours on end in a queue for tickets etc.. no band or product is worthy of that carry on!

The few times I've been to A&E I've been seen fairly quickly.

Saint_Mel · 12-07-2011 10:41PM

141/2 hours queuing up to buy a house about 4 years ago

Somewhere in the region of 11 hours (I think) in A&E with suspected pneumonia last New Years Eve

Queue Standing! Whats your longest wait?

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