How Long Will People Queue

Stereotypically, British people are good at two things; tutting and queuing

. An image of a stiff upper lip goes with it. However, how true are stereotypes when it comes to British people? A study of 2,000 Brits has revealed an average adult will spend almost a year of their lives waiting in a queue. Each week, on average, a British adult will wait for a collective two hours and five minutes shopping, waiting for a public toilet, waiting for food, or in traffic. For some, all aspects could be done in a single day. For Brits hoping to get in and out of a shop quickly, an average wait of 29 minutes in a supermarket queue could be what they have to look forward to.

Four and a half days, each year, is an average time of waiting within queues for an average Brit. Which means, throughout the course of an average adult lifetime of 60.5 years, a whole 273 days are spent simply waiting in line. A whole two months of a persons lifetime is spent simply standing in line at a supermarket. Perhaps a worldwide stereotype, for once, is correct. However, there are those Brits who have limits on what they will wait for, and why.

However, no Brit complains about how long their wait may be. Instead, queue-jumpers were picked on by seven in ten people; with bad mannered people coming close behind. It seems whilst Brits are fine with standing and waiting, disrupt their wait and you will be on their naughty list.

Raffaela De Vittorio, spokesman for luxury toilet brand Geberit AquaClean, said: "Britain is renowned for being an incredibly polite nation, and as such as we are generally happy to take our place in a queue and wait our turn, especially if its something worth waiting for such as using the loo. But the figures are quite astonishing when you work out how long this means we queue over the course of our adult lifetime a lot can happen in a persons life over a year. This is fine if patience is your strong point, but for those people who are in a permanent rush, the time could be better spent elsewhere."

A whole hour and nineteen minutes is the longest time Brits are prepared to wait for. However, they will only wait for specific things, like queuing for theme park rides, waiting on a delayed train, or standing in line at a post office. However, for things like toilets, people feel they should only have to wait ten minutes or so, maximum, to be able to use them. It seems, then, a Brit is more than happy to wait around for an adrenaline fix or a ride home, but when they need to pee, then they really need to pee.

Perhaps one reason for Brits being so accommodating to queues is their sociability; 68 percent of them say they will strike up a conversation with those standing in front or behind of them, in order to pass the time, and maybe just make a new friend or two. It is no wonder such an amount of Brits will stand their time in a queue, with potential to make friends or even simply gain entertainment for their hour or so. Despite a nice sociable line, six in ten people will only really want to wait for something depending on how many things they have in their basket, or how much they want to get at the end of the queue.

by: Katie Woods

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