By Soller Shirley
Yes, different rules do apply
‘Queuing in Spain looks different. Instead of standing around uncomfortably in a line shuffling forward every few minutes like robots, in Spain you simply ask who the last person was to enter the establishment, then sit back and relax. When that person has been served, you know it’s your turn.’
In other words, I enter the Post office and sit and wait. I know who the person before me is, or if I don’t, I ask. Then when it is my turn, I go the desk.
If I am joining the bus queue, I work out who is before me and then I can take a seat. When the bus comes, I join the queue at the place I should join.
This local way is far kinder than the regimented way of the queuers of the UK or Germany. Local people will not queue your way. This is Spain.
I have watched the mayhem at the bus station when local people walk to the front of the bus queue when the bus arrives. They are allowed to do this because they were there FIRST.
Always remember that this is Spain, not the UK or Germany or any other country which does not operate by these rules.
This is Spain…
Pic by Rachel Fox
