I drove past a restaurant the other day and noticed a line of people, maybe 20 or 30 yards long, waiting to go in. I later found out that this particular restaurant was extremely popular (it clearly was) and the food was excellent. So what? Why would anybody choose to queue up for food when they don’t have to? Why not either go back another time when the restaurant is less busy or just book a table somewhere else?

This seems to happens a lot in both the UK and the USA, where people with clearly enough money (or probably too much) think nothing of lining up like paupers for their food. I just don’t get it. No food is that good. I don’t care who owns the restaurant or how good the menu is, affluent Westerners waiting in line for food is unnecessary and demeaning.

Or maybe I’m just impatient!