Gentle Humour Of Queuing For The Queen

[pastafreak]

A longish article...worth it for the humour. I hope a few Abers read it

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/sep/15/the-most-british-thing-ever-huge-queue-of-royal-mourners-sparks-memes-and-gentle-humour

[pastafreak]

This was supposed to be in chatterbank.

[jno]

Elizabeth Line, very good

[pastafreak]

I liked the last suggestion to drive the Queen along the route.

[choux]

I really hope that everyone who has queued or is queuing takes away their special moment that will remain with them for the rest of their life. I admire them all.

[Cloverjo]

That was funny.

It’s quite a strange thing to do when you think about it. I’ve never gone to look at anyone’s coffin before the funeral, why would I want to queue for hours go and look at a Queen’s for a few seconds?

[pastafreak]

So do I choux..I envy those who go. Daughter and her partner hope to go tomorrow night...and I'm going to try to catch them on the live stream.

[Cloverjo]

I’m sure everyone who goes will have a great memory of the moment.

[pastafreak]

I know clover...but 100s of thousands are.

[Barsel]

I like that one too pasta, in fact some of them were laugh out loud quips.

[choux]

pasta, I really hope they do get through. Good luck with the live streaming x

[pastafreak]

Barsel...I was snorting out loud!

Thanks choux...fingers x'd x

[Barsel]

Also liked the one about someone's Gran who joined a queue once even though she didn't know what it was for and came away with Emlyn Hughes ( I think it was ) autograph and she had no idea who that was!

[237SJ]

Overnight is probably a good time to go. I was going to do that tonight but bottled out. Might go tomorrow

[ladybirder]

How come I can't read the article. I'm being asked to sign in to the Guardian. I don't want to.

[pastafreak]

LB, click on "I'll do it later"...then you can read it.

[ladybirder]

Thanks Pasta. Got it.

[KUSTARD]

Sorry, know it might not be kind or pc, but I loved the one about the people at the end of the queue viewing Charles' coffin.

[KUSTARD]

Just thought of something else to do with queuing. The first time my husband and I went to Lancaster many years ago, we joined a long queue to go round the castle. After waiting for quite a while, we got to the front of the queue and were asked for our visiting order. We hadn't realised that in those days it was a prison.

[Tilly2]

So did I, Kustard.

[roopower]

Yes, only in Britain! Mind you, husband and I once waiting to book in to hotel in London, next in queue, enter a bus load of Japanese and we found ourselves almost out of the door!