Lines

The Germans do a real good job at doing most things right. One exception is lines, waiting in lines that is. When you are waiting at the bus stop and the bus arrives, everyone clusters together right in front of the doors as to make it extremely difficult for the passengers to exit. It's quite silly I think. The best word to describe this would be a clusterfuck. Moving on from this inefficient technique is waiting in line in a store. Say there is only one checker open in a store that has the equipment for two. The line is really long in the only line available. Then, all of a sudden, as if it were magic, a second checker arrives at the second checking station. One would think that the new line would follow the order of the second half of the long line, or at least maintain some sort of order in respect to the original line. What happens instead, if you're not paying attention, is you end up in the back of the new line even though logically you would be first. The second half of the first line stampedes to get there chance to save themselves a minute of time, leaving others in the dust. I haven't yet figured out the logic behind the German line ideology, for now I just watch and have a little laugh to myself because in all honesty it's trivial.