Asked whether he had stood in an ATM queue, Varoufakis said he and his wife must be the only Greeks who hadn't.
But I've been that person, I've stood in the queue, with a dubplate in the rain waiting for Fabio and Grooverider [fellow drum'n'bass DJs and now good friends] and they never turned up," he grins ruefully.
Her father had come to the place as a young man; she had gone to the school, and her mother had stood in the queue at the butcher's with all the other women, picking out cuts of meat at one counter, then going over to the kiosk at the back to pay.
So I've stood in queues checking Twitter and written reviews with News 24 in the background.
Not only do they look the same and have the same mannerisms and the same allergies, they also share the same political views and taste in bleak art-house cinema (they work out that they could have stood in the same queues for obscure, independent movies).
"It is easy to come to this place and we don't have to stand in a queue to get our children examined by a doctor or to get them vaccinated," she says enthusiastically.
We could see the audience was on mobile – you only have to stand in a queue in Pret to see that".
When I entered the store, I had to stand in a queue – a couple of customers were looking carefully at the display.
The lonely sentinel on NATO's southern flank suddenly found itself exposed: It was being overtaken by the Central European countries against which it had stood guard in the queue to join the European Union, and it was eager to distance itself from the turmoil of the Middle East.
In Zimbabwe, well in all of Africa, banks have pillars, and you stand in a queue.
Some in the queue had stood with Mr Yeltsin outside Russia's parliament in 1991, to face down a hardline putsch.
