Yes, okay, that was a little bit of a heading to pull you in this time.
However, I was at Tesco in Tiverton on Friday, and on my way out remembered that I needed to get some cash out of the cash point so went there. Only one of the two machines was working, and the queue, all males, was standing in the usual place for queueing at these particular machines, despite the fact that it was raining rather heavily at the time, and that all of us in the queue except for the person at the machine itself (which is convienently located under a roof) were getting a bit wet. Nobody else joined the queue behind me, until I was at the machine itself (which, as I mentioned before was under cover) when this was when the women started to withdraw money. However, the women queued to the side of me, remaining under cover.
These are the two facts. The men queued in the correct place (there are footprints painted on the floor where Tesco want people to stand when they wait) but got wet, while the women queued in the incorrect place but remained (relatively) dry.
I looked at it this way: the men queued and were not worried that they were getting wet, while the women didn’t want to get wet.
How do you look at this?
Well…
The women were clearly more sensible, but she was potentially causing anarchy. However, you can read more into this. I am a man – a DNA test has confirmed this. Had I approached said machine when it was only you to queue behind, I would have (once I’d said “Richie… is that you? Ey up!! etc) probably taken the compromise approach where you are able to obtain cash whilst remaining in a relative state of dryness too. So – it’s all down to the intelligence levels crossed with the weather conditions at the time that the queue first formed. Afterall, if one person can withdraw money every minute and there was a constant stream of punters avaiable, the queue itself could be sustained for minutes or even hours on end.
I digress. To summarise – I dunno
Hmm… You do have a point there – the anatomical properties of a queue, and how it works over time. Maybe I should look more into this than purely on its gender basis.