Thou shalt NOT cut in line

[Magical Realist]

Ahhh the unspoken ethics of linewaiting. We do it all the time, moreso during the holidays. This assumed ethics of standing single file and waiting our turn to get waited on. But there's always the tension about cutters. People who for one reason or another think that they are entitled to cut. At the airport, boarding the plane has this sort of high tension energy. Handicapped first. Then first class. Then special mileage gold club members. Then the usual group A, or B, or C, etc. People are generally huddled around the boarding gate nervous they won't get on the plane. People suspiciously eyeing one another to ensure the sacred order is not violated. The casual and humorous socializing with people next to you thrown into the same imprisoning stressful situation. Have you ever witnessed a cutter get ostracized by linewaiters? It's an ugly thing. Like how a murder of crows will violently tussle and peck on one particular crow for some bird-specific crime. But it's the right thing. It's a group effort to maintain the justice of linewaiting. Here's a brief video on the ins and outs of linewaiting:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/video/line-ra...e-23480428

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