It wasn't just women who gossiped in the queues for water: it was a community event.
ANC voters questioned in the queues at polling stations said they were voting for the ruling party not its leader.
Nor does it require reciprocity, though frequent lenders get a boost in the queues for popular books.
They show it on giant screens as you wait in the queues to see him – it's pretty gruesome.
It is exhausting to both tell our story over and over again, and to have to wait in the queues.
"People are assaulting you over a bag of flour, punching each other in the queues and supermarkets, wreaking havoc.
Stand in the queues and the talk is sometimes less about what people have seen, and more about the quantity of shows they have seen.
For in the queues and even in the stations, the party atmosphere continues, with emotion occasionally swimming over as the sun beats down, and the lines drag.On the phones at our Hargeisa base, some worrying reports creep in.
America's intellectual drawing power is evident in the queues of students waiting for visas at the American embassy: in the 2007-08 academic year more than 81,000 Chinese were studying in American colleges.
Other received less gentle treatment - one British motorist caught in the queues described seeing CRS officers spraying the trucks with pepper spray and watching migrants "drop off like flies".
(They speak of little else in the queues outside Argentina's banks).But while a welfarist consensus may still hold sway across the European Union, consensus politics are fraying around the edges in other ways.
