20.12.10 It's Behind You!

Have you noticed that queues are getting longer?  Do you know why?  I'll tell you - it's all because of fuckin' cases with wheels.

In the old days, going on a trip of any description would possibly mean taking a bag or suitcase.  Whatever the style of luggage, it was a sure thing that every cunt could carry an item or two.  Now consider for a moment the practice of queuing - 'old style'.  People would wait in line or move forward in a line, carrying their bags when time to edge forward, and putting them down when they had to stop.  Generally the luggage would be transported alongside the person, and reside (temporarily) next to the owner when progress was not possible.

These days, none of that is the way of things.  Instead, we have the invasion of the trolley cases to contend with.  It seems that manufacturers of any item of luggage are now hell bent on including wheels and an extendable handle.  This applies to even the poxiest, smallest, most pointless bag going.  I've seen bags little bigger than a lunch box being pulled along behind some cunt who's so lazy, it's apparently necessary and preferable to drag it rather than carry it.

The effect of the trolley invasion is to lengthen queues.  Each owner of a bag-on-wheels drags the contraption along, and forces the person behind to allow extra room for movement.  Getting too close to the trolley in front risks kicking into it, bruising an ankle, or even stumbling and tripping up.  So, no longer do bags and cases reside to one side, they take up space behind.  If a traveller takes up (rather than has) two square feet, then the luggage will take up a further two square feet when all are stationary, but the luggage will occupy an extra 4 square feet if being dragged via the extendable handle.  So, the queue multiples are x2 for static, and x3 for moving.  And all this when the world is rather overcrowded!

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