Cela fait 5 minutes maintenant que je suis à quai.
— BB27000 (@BB27000) September 14, 2022
Je dois passer aussi une annonce voyageur.
La sécurité étant traité, passons à mes passagers.
Sauf que je fais l’erreur ÉNORME.
Je leur dis la vérité.
Non classé
J’explique que l’on est bloqué, le jeune, la tentative de suicide…
— BB27000 (@BB27000) September 14, 2022
Toussa toussa.
Aussitôt, un attroupement se fait au pied de ma cabine sur le quai.
Kesskisspass, kantesskonpär, keussepasstil ?
Les questions se transforment vite en colère.
— BB27000 (@BB27000) September 14, 2022
« Vous comprenez je dois rentrer chez moi, la nounou, les gosses, mon mari, le chien, le chat, je sais pas quoi faire à manger ce soir… »
J’entends mille suppliques de voyageurs qui voudraient bien rentrer chez eux.
Oui mais, oui mais. Il y a une vie en jeu.
— BB27000 (@BB27000) September 14, 2022
Je ne connais pas les intentions du jeune homme.
Alors on attends la police car ce n’est pas moi qui vais aller le chercher.
It is a queue that goes right through the entirety of London. It has toilets and water points and websites just for The Queue.
— ❓🦎 (@curiousiguana) September 14, 2022
You cannot leave The Queue. You cannot get into The Queue further down. You cannot hold places in The Queue. There are wristbands for The Queue.
Once you join The Queue you can expect to be there for days. But you cannot have a chair and a sleeping bag. There is no sleeping in The Queue, for The Queue moves constantly and steadily, day and night. You will be shuffling along at 0.1 miles per hour for days.
— ❓🦎 (@curiousiguana) September 14, 2022
There is a YouTube channel, Twitter feed and Instagram page, each giving frequent updates about The Queue. Because the back of The Queue, naturally, keeps moving. To join The Queue requires up to the minute knowledge of where The Queue is now.
— ❓🦎 (@curiousiguana) September 14, 2022
The BBC has live coverage of The Queue on BBC One, and a Red Button service showing the front bit of The Queue.
— ❓🦎 (@curiousiguana) September 14, 2022
NO ONE IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD JOIN THE QUEUE AND YET STILL THEY COME. "Oh, it'll only be until 6am on Thursday, we can take soup".
And the end of the queue is a box. You will walk past the box, slowly, but for no more than a minute. Then you will exit into the London drizzle and make your way home.
— ❓🦎 (@curiousiguana) September 14, 2022
Tell me this isn't the greatest bit of British performance art that has ever happened? I'm giddy with joy. It's fantastic. We are a deeply, deeply mad people with an absolutely unshakeable need to join a queue. It's utterly glorious.
— ❓🦎 (@curiousiguana) September 14, 2022
