Endlessly long queue

Buying a ticket after a century has passed.

Endlessly long queue at the Main train station in Brno.

I also needed to buy a train ticket but I didn’t have to wait in the queue. I bought a ticket via an app Můj vlak from České dráhy (Czech train company). Did the people know they didn’t have to wait?

There is the other side of the argument: Did they want to have a chat with other people in the queue? Did they want to say Hello to the lady behind the counter? Would they talk to each other or would they be quiet?

In case one person approached the other and began chatting, would the other person be surprised, made them more annoyed from the tedious waiting? Or would they take it as a better way of spending time in the queue?

Or perhaps they didn’t think about it at all.

What do you think?

SDÍLEJTE:

Břetislav Sobek

My name is Bretislav Sobek. I am curious and don’t understand new things. That is the reason why I ask, I write it down and post it.

I have written hundreds of emails to newspaper’s editorial offices. They have answered me once. They wrote me that if I wanted to write I should study journalism including a link to the right faculty. They said it was supposed to be the right place for me.

Others answered with a suspicion that I was a PR manager of a political party. I just wanted to inform my fellow citizens about what I think was important to them.

I applied for Journalists unions. They didn’t accept me and weren’t able to explain me why. The same went for another ten candidates.

And that’s the reason why I decided to set up my own newspaper and named myself a chief editor.

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Japbir Singh says:

10/01/2025 at 11:23

Hello Bret, I agree with what I believe you’re driving at about why they queue up: 1) they feel attracted by the simplicity of queueing, it’s easier than having to confront the online mess of applications and which to get (which has the simplest and least intimidating user interface, which gives the best deal), so perhaps their minds even never strayed to the possibility that ‘an app’ would make it easier, because they didn’t want to become an online creature. Thus maybe 2) they felt it was the ‘human’ alternative, and it pleased the majority of them that even if they were not talking they were acting as a human community of sorts in that train station, however briefly and insignificant.

Overall it is an interesting brief observation of human nature, on how there can be those who accept tedium and slowness so hazily, even readily.

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- Břetislav Sobek says:
  
  10/01/2025 at 12:55
  
  Thank you for your comment and point of view 🙂
  
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