In the harbour, tens of people queue in front of the ferry companies' kiosks to buy tickets that will get them one step further into Europe.
The long queues have been extensively covered and ridiculed in social media, comparing them to people queuing in front of a McDonald's restaurant in Moscow, Russia in the early 1990s, and contrasting them with the nearly nonexistent queues to Burger King restaurants in Stockholm, Sweden.
"According to credible information, there were up to 250 national enemies queuing in front of the gate to get inside and serve the Americans in return for dollar salaries, and by doing so they were playing with their country, religion and dignity," Mr. Mujahid said.
Some luxury brand department stores keep customers queuing in front of their stores to prevent congestion and provide better one-to-one service.
The best new rules stabilize the direct load queuing in front of a work center and significantly improve performance compared to the existing rules.
Yet when he attended a Canadian government job fair in Toronto this autumn, he left after 20 minutes without handing out a single résumé.He queued in front of a booth for the Canadian natural-resources ministry, only to be told that information on openings was best found on the ministry's website.
"It's the best in the world," explains Al, who is queuing in front of us with his wife.
"There was one woman MP queueing in front of me in the tea room who said: 'Who will be the next Speaker?" I said Michael Martin.
As they gradually realised, they were queuing in front of a canvas façade stretched across scaffolding in a bare field.The practical joke, which took place last summer, was so vast and baffling as to verge on surrealism.
People started queuing in front of a men-only polling station in Alexandria, Egypt's second-largest city, more than an hour before the doors opened.
