I noticed this article today about … Foreign students in Britain to be schooled in queuing. Looks like one more thing to learn. I can say that when I was in Berlin, they were not as proper about queuing as here, and it was a little discombobulating. So, I suppose that means that the system here is sinking in.
Monday, 24 September 2007
Monday, 1 October 2007 at 4:02 pm
Ben
I’ve got a feeling that I drawn your attention to Kate Fox’s book ‘Understanding the English’ before. It’s an Oxford anthropologist’s exposition of British culture and has a great section on queueing – including that idea that even one English person standing waiting (say at a Taxi rank) will form a queue – by placing themselves in such a way that the next person who should happen along will be very clear where to stand so as not to usurp the first persons place. It’s very funny and insightful – a rather painful look in the mirror for the British.
See you soon in the NT seminar
Mark
Thursday, 4 October 2007 at 10:18 am
Yeah, someone gave us that book a couple of months before we moved, and we enjoyed it.