"Lunch at my last school wasn't a fun time, with lots of queueing.
When you eat, your food is also being hungrily devoured by the eyes of queueing customers.
After 90 minutes of queueing on the opening night, it was finally my turn to sit opposite the artist.
Shortages of goods have been replaced by lack of property rights; the humiliation of queueing for meat has been replaced by the humiliation of being milked by bureaucrats.
For instance, we say "sorry" when someone else bumps into us, and take too much notice of queueing while pretending not to.
The idea of queueing up with my luggage ahead of Brian Eno and Damon Albarn at 7.30am on a Wednesday seems like a dream.
Three weeks ago he said he witnessed migrants climbing on top of queueing caravans and smashing in the skylights to get in.
In the capital Tripoli, a loud cry of "Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") went up when voting began at one polling station, a converted school building abuzz with the chatter of queueing locals.
Of course, blind acceptance of the surveillance state is another infamous British trait, so perhaps it can take the place of queueing in the list of what it means to be British.
Mr. Mull, who now works for another blood-product company, added, "I wasn't the shipping person, but I would still be the person in charge of queueing it up".
If you want a good view of the city, instead of queueing for hours to climb the campanile of San Marco, go across to the island of San Giorgio.
