10.26.25: The Eternal Queue

Humans are experts at waiting in line. Airports, supermarkets, coffee shops. The queue is our great equalizer, a shared ritual of silent suffering. The strange thing is, nobody teaches us. You just instinctively know not to cut. I once saw a man break the rule in London and the collective outrage of the line was terrifying. No words, just a thousand death stares. He stepped back like a criminal. It’s proof that society hangs together not just on laws, but on invisible agreements, like respecting the sanctity of the line. Break it, and you’ve declared war.