Tuesday, February 28, 2006

The longest queue in the world


And the winner is; Heathrow Terminal 4! Congratulations, you made the discerning travelers queue for up to 4 hours just to get through security! Bravo! And can you imagine, if they had spent the 4 hours in the departure/ duty free lounge. How much money did you loose out on exactly? I for one had a couple of unnecessary purchases I was going to make, but of course didn’t have time after queuing for 12 squllion kagillion hours.

Annoyingly, I had these excitable holidaymakers behind me. Annoyingly annoyingly, one of them was bragging about her general knowledge of dubai! And this information was not even first hand, but acquired from a friend of a friend who lives out there. She had a pretty good audience though, as they were well impressed with her general knowledge of the wonderful, wow’esque Palm Island. By then I’d had enough and plugged myself in.

Embarrassingly fortunate for me, I was pulled out of the queue early to test out this new x-ray machine. I was picked out, as I was one of the very few solo travelers. Anyhoo, I was happy as it meant 30 minutes less queuing! However I did have to stand in rather silly and embarrassing positions as though I was doing an aerobics workout.

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