By Jeff Lucas2024-06-24T16:35:00
Most of us don’t do well with interruptions. But allowing ourselves to be re-directed can be a useful and godly trait, says Jeff Lucas
One of the great British hobbies is queuing and, in my experience, we’re rather good at it, which comes from practise. In some cultures, people don’t respect the order of a queue, and an unseemly free-for-all results, sometimes accompanied by yelling and elbowing. But, with the exception of Black Friday, when some shoppers reportedly rugby tackle others in order to snag a bargain microwave, we Brits politely line up.
That’s why, just yesterday, I was mildly incensed when, having waited patiently in a queue for some eleven hours (OK, it was just 45 minutes), three chaps rudely pushed their way to the front.
Quietly outraged, I pondered the reason for my frustration, and it came down to this: my carefully planned schedule was being interrupted. I had my day ahead organised – or so I’d thought. Now I’d be delayed by at least a whole ten minutes.
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