But queuing is not just about waiting patiently.
Last weekend Meredith Dropkin, 41, a public relations executive in Syracuse, picked "Mad Men" over the premiere of "Girls," but queued up "Girls" on the DVR.
Reservations are tough to land (call and see) but queuing up before they open can yield success. 3870 17th Street, +1 415 621 3870, frances-sf.com.
Queues are the sequences of messages in the buffers mentioned previously, but "queuing" is the term for abnormally long delays caused by poorly designed processes that cause the buffers to fill needlessly.
The latter will not start the pipeline immediately, but queue it for later sequential processing.
But queues are needed only for things that are in short supply.
Shops will also be selling phones to those that haven't been reserved, with doors opening at 8am but queues likely forming long before that.
No 10 initially claimed Rajoy had promised to ensure the delays would be eased but queues instead worsened, at one point reaching four hours in the summer heat.
Taxis (about 350 baht) are also an option, but queues can be long and scams frequent.
