All day at the emergency room when my ex burned the skin off his palm. This was the very early 1990s and apparently they triaged: Gunshot wounds, then anyone who had insurance and could pay, then everyone else. So it became a much more complicated medical event than it needed to be, and he was in pain the whole time.
Oh man I forgot about hospitals. Don’t know if the longest line would have been there but they dominate my personal top ten
I was in a&e last month for ibd issues, I got there just before midnight and was there to 4 in the afternoon then next day. more than 10 hours I was there. Was triaged within an hour and had blood tests done within another hour. The rest of it was waiting to see a Dr who didn’t get on shift until after 6 am. So the Dr and then had to wait for near ten hours just to see the Dr again to find out if I was being admitted or not.
I got dragged to a midnight opening of a clockwork orange store opening by my mum when I was a pre teen. We were there from midnight to something like 3/4 in the morning. We then left and went home and went to bed, then went back after daylight occurred and my mum had a look around and realised that she doesn’t actually like designer brands anyway. So I got to be a cranky sleep deprived kid with severe ADHD and autistic traits for a 5 minute (at most) look around a shop.
I was almost 5 hours in line to get Jim Lee’s autograph at Barcelona’s comic con.
I waited for over 12 hours to get a Wii back when it launched. It was pretty fun, but I’ve never waited like that again since.
3 days I think. For a PS3 at launch
I think I waited for about 2 and a half days for mine. Turns out the Walmart I was at didn’t get as many as they said so they gave me an iou. Fortunately they did actually get them in a week later.
Does waiting on the phone count? If so, six hours to get someone at the IRS, so they could fix the mistake in 2 minutes.
That’s wild. I feel like the phone network is too dicey, like my call would have dropped at some point over six hours
Traffic. I25 north from Denver. 3 hours from when I realized my fuck-up to the next possible exit thanks to a flatbed truck across all 3 lanes trying to remove a white suv that was somehow high centered perpendicular on the concrete median with no visible damage.
The first week of lockdowns, line for restaurant workers to get free food from a restaurant before it went bad. Three blocks long.
Ah, I remember being at the grocery store when it first started happening and they were only letting so many people in at a time, so they had turned their parking lot into a queue by flipping grocery carts over and tying police tape from cart to cart
I’ve been waiting in line to die for the last 43yrs, I’m not in rush, so it’s okay.
Otakon registration line, probably about 2014. The line wrapped the Baltimore convention center two times.
I once waited 3.5 hours for free pancakes at IHOP. I had a shit week and just wanted some free pancakes, but they accidentally crossed my name out before even seating me, so I saw multiple groups arrive after, eat, and leave before my dumbass thought “maybe I should say something.”
Also, my phone was dead for the last 2 hours of that.
Yeah but IHop has some pretty good pancakes tho.
They were. And I still tipped the amount the pancakes would have been
Back in the before times, I sat in line for 36 hours for front row seats for a David Bowie concert in 1987.
It turned into a street party for the 100 or so people in the line.
Your moms room
Line to vote in 2020 Presidential election.
Most democratic country:
Fuck human rights no water for you
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
