I’m in Toronto attending the Toronto Wine and Spirits Festival and I’m amazed, as I always am when I travel, by how people line up. We not so lucky with lining up in Trinidad, including me. So I started thinking about why that might be. Here’s a few reasons I’ve come up with:
- It starts at home. If there is order at home there is order out of the home. My brother’s Family in Toronto still have breakfast together. (as a family) That’s weird.
- It continues in school. Toronto schools have more space. When I pass New Town Boys, where I attended, and see that there is no room for the boys to play, the cacophony of little boys cramped in a small space starts the process of disorder.
- There are no penalties for line breakers. In T&T line breakers are rewarded.
Have you ever been waiting for a Doubles, after the guy buying for the office orders, “6 without, 6 with slight and 12 with plenty pepper” and a guy walks up and says; “ah eating here” and he starts eating within 5 seconds of arrival? You want to choke him and the doubles man. But you know what, pretty soon you start doing it too and just “line to the side”.
