Otakon registration line, probably about 2014. The line wrapped the Baltimore convention center two times.
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A tie between the line to ride the elevator down to the cave at ruby falls and the last time I went through security at the Atlanta airport
I think it was a line for a 4D ride in the Futuroscope near Poitiers, France. Pretty sure I waited something close to 4 hours for a 10 min ride. It was crap.
US customs circa 2004.
Burning Man entry and exit lines, some years ago. Took ages to get in and out!
Tokyo Disney World
I was a professional line stander in DC for many years. I think the longest wait was probably close to 72 hours.
I would like to hear some more of your line standing adventures!
What was it for?
It was back in the 90’s and I think it was a senate hearing for Microsoft, so Bill Gates was there himself.
He should have hired a professional like you too instead of waiting for that long.
3 hours in the middle of the night in a crowded mall.
It was Cataclysm's release night. People were packed in, you had groups of them with laptops huddling together to play while we waited. Eventually the GameStop employees came out and started doing a trivia contest with some WoW-themed tat as rewards.
Service Canada. It wasn’t a physically super long line, but the shit people were there for took hours.
Earlier last year I waited an hour and a half for a restaurant that was supposed to be the best Mexican food in that area, plus one of the very few that served molcajete. Turns out by 'best' they meant subpar, tough, and bland. And they didn't even actually have molcajete. I was pissed over the time wasted I spent standing outside in the sun.
The line to the grave
You can always cut that line, if you want.
There was a tech event here and you could try a VR headset inside a general gaming space, so I had to wait 3h outside in the scorching sun just to play 5 minutes of VR to know if I could buy a headset without worrying if it would make me sick.
turns out it makes you sick after 10 minutes
Back in like 2007? I started a line in front of a best buy to wait for the wii console release it was about a 3 day wait. I was the only one there for the first day, but some other people showed the next day. We had a pretty good time.
Life line.
On a 4.5 hour drive home, I got caught in a full stop on I-55 for 4.5 hours, thus doubling my drive time. I guess there were fatalities and a great deal of vehicular carnage, so I didn't complain about the wait. I knew plenty others were having a far worse day than me.
Probably Soarin'. Probably the one at EPCOT, though the one at California Adventure felt much longer because I was by myself (~~probably~~ younger than I should have been).
Oh, maybe it was the line for Radiator Springs Racers. I remember that line taking forever and when I wanted to go a second time I ended up going myself in the single riders. (~~probably~~ younger than I should have been).
Actually, the line to get into the goddamn plane for both of those trips tlwas longer than any ride at Disney.
The line to get into the Vatican
I once queued for four hours for Wimbledon tickets. The tennis was good, and it was great to say that I saw some cool matches that year, but any feeling of joy I had was diminished by my aching feet and generally being pissed off about having to queue for something I could watch on TV.
I also queued for about two hours once to get out of Wembley Stadium, because of a tube delay. Anyone that's walked along Wembley Way before will know that getting out (if you need to get to the station) is hell. Nowadays, I park nearby instead, or rent a bike and cycle near a station that isn't fucked.
I know that as a Brit queueing should be in my blood, but I just can't be fucked with any queue that's longer than 4-5 people.
There was a lego expo near where I used to live last year, and there was an accident at the stadium in the same city, so they crammed the expo all in a different building, a single nursing-home-sized building. What resulted was a super dense line that was the queue equivalent of a snake eating its tail. I got like three hundred pictures out of it, all on Reddit.
At one point, as is my luck it seems, someone held up the line and caused it to descend into complete reorganization because they brought an emotional support dog and got pissed when half the pictures I took happened to have the dog somewhere in it because they were the next person in the line once I got past the first quarter. The scene they made fizzled out the fun.
Queue for first covid shot at 6 Flags in Northern Virginia. It was a car queue, but there must have been 100 cars in front of me.
credit agencies.
listen and navigate useless automated prompt then wait an hour for some crony to inform you that you have no immediate control of your credit due to a system error on their end.
8 hours in line to apply for a new identity card.