Inept Queueing

I went to watch a film last week, Attack the Block if you must know, which was part of the Fantasy Film Fest here in Berlin, and not just any old showing, it was a special event of the festival with the Director in attendance.  None other than the Joe part of the great Adam & Joe combination.

So, whilst trying not to jump around in giddy excitement, I boarded the train nice and early with the idea of getting to the cinema half an hour before, getting nicely into the queue and therefore getting a nice good seat. Where I'd not only be able to not only view the film in glorious comfort, but to be able to view said director close enough that I cannot blank him from my vision with surreptitious use of my thumb.

At first, everything was going rather well, there was a queue already formed, so I joined it and started patiently waiting.  After a short amount of time, i noticed that there was a smaller queue forming to the right of the main queue.  After a little more time I noticed people just milling around at the sides.  Then I realised, I'm in Germany, not the UK, queueing is not something terribly important to people here.  The result being that this happened.

"A clusterfuck of Morons"

The idea seemed to be that no matter what time you arrive, you just stand as close to the door as you can get and then when people start to move in, you lightly push and as if by magic, you get in.

It wasn't that there was any violence or crushed bodies, everyone seemed ok with the fact that if you're stood at the back, you have to wait until all the people that pushed in were assimilated into the queue.  So people that arrived 2 minutes before got a better seat than those who'd been there for 40 minutes.

Now, you could say I'm being English, or that "who cares about queueing, you square!  If you want to get to the front you should!  Just push!!"  Well, I think it comes down to basic decency and respect for the other humans.  Why should I push to the front and give a giant "fuck you arsehole!" to the people behind who had the foresight to get there a little early.

I think its because, here in Berlin, people are of the "screw the rules! i'm an anarchist! i'll do what i like!!" mindset.  Which is good, it gives Berlin an edge that you don't really get in other places and I love it.  The problem being, I don't see where pushing in a cinema queue is "sticking it to the man" or pushing out the boundaries of what it is to live as a human being.  It just boils down to basic selfish behaviour  made palatable by a veneer of political ideology.

There is nothing alternative about it atall, its just self obsessed tits being selfish pricks.  The result of all of this being my view of the director (and his surprise guest sidekick Nick Frost), was this.

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Fuckers.