I thought waiting a line with 30 to 40 people ahead was a nightmare, until I saw the Brits queuing for a mile to see the deceased queen. That day I realized no one can beat the Brits at queuing.
I think it was over 12hrs wait time at one point.
Does waiting on the phone count? If so, six hours to get someone at the IRS, so they could fix the mistake in 2 minutes.
That’s wild. I feel like the phone network is too dicey, like my call would have dropped at some point over six hours
3 days I think. For a PS3 at launch
I think I waited for about 2 and a half days for mine. Turns out the Walmart I was at didn’t get as many as they said so they gave me an iou. Fortunately they did actually get them in a week later.
The first week of lockdowns, line for restaurant workers to get free food from a restaurant before it went bad. Three blocks long.
Ah, I remember being at the grocery store when it first started happening and they were only letting so many people in at a time, so they had turned their parking lot into a queue by flipping grocery carts over and tying police tape from cart to cart
I waited in line for 3 hours to ride Avatar Flight of Passage for the first time at Disney.
Was the ride everything you dreamed of
It was pretty awesome. It was still not worth 3 hours wait. I would probably wait an hour and a half to do it again.
I was in Disney shortly after that opened. I had a cousin who interned there and old me the ride was amazing, but with that kind of wait and the fact that I never cared about the Avatar movies, I couldn’t be bothered. Went on the other avatar themed ride though since the line was shorter and it was pretty neat. Classic boat dark ride iirc, but the animatronics were well designed, as they generally are when you have the money Disney has.
I think it’s got to be for some ride at an amusement park, I can’t of anywhere else I’ve willingly waited in line over 3 hours for something.
Traffic. I25 north from Denver. 3 hours from when I realized my fuck-up to the next possible exit thanks to a flatbed truck across all 3 lanes trying to remove a white suv that was somehow high centered perpendicular on the concrete median with no visible damage.
I’ve been waiting in line to die for the last 43yrs, I’m not in rush, so it’s okay.
7 hours at the DMV only to get rejected even after checking documents when I arrived because I needed another one.
Never went back to that hellhole office and found another one that took 15 minutes.
DMVs are the absolute worst.
Probably the Empire State Building. It was about 3 or 4 hours, but instead of one line, it was a series of lines. It was set up so that you think you’re done with the line only to be at the end of another line.
Another line I can remember was for a food truck. It was the 4th of July and my city has a food truck fest every year. During the pandemic, there were fewer trucks than normal. Ended up in a line that was like 2 and a half hours only for the food truck to stop sales about 7 or 8 people in front of me. I was hangry after that.
As far as a non physical line, I waited 2 years to get a CPAP. I almost gave up on getting one when it finally happened.
The line to the grave
You can always cut that line, if you want.
Two Christmases ago, I was renting a car. Right after Southwest cancelled approximately a million flights. So there were almost no rental cars. You basically waited in line until one was returned and then the next person would wait, etc. I waited 8 hours for a car. Walkable cities anyone?
Haunted house. 8 hours.
Lmao imagining the ghost after a few hours
Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. Boo. The line is another eight hours? Fuuuck me. Boo. Boo. Boo.
7.5 hours for a covid test during the first outbreak in my city, they tried to tell me they were closed and not seeing more people, that was the only time I Karen’s my way into getting my way
Waited through three showings of the original Star Wars movie at a theater when it first showed. Line wrapped around the building almost twice.
