The Queuing Thing

I thought at first it was just a Vietnamese thing, but the Chinese do it, or don't do it, too.

These people simply do not wait in lines. You could stand a half inch behind the person in front of you, and people will still cut in front of you. You have to literally get inside the ticket booth at the train station to get served. Like my dad would say, it's the damndest thing i ever seen. I've never seen a pushier bunch of people in my life.

I felt a victorious bit of justice though in the customs line at the Beijing airport. The Vietnamese tour group behind me was having a fit about all that space between that yellow line and the immigration desk. I could literally watch their minds snap. I loved seeing them squirm...