When you go on vacation, you expect lines. Lines at airport security. Lines for every attraction at the theme park. More lines for food after the attractions.
Well, I just went on a European vacation, and I’m happy to report, they have lines, too. In fact, I was in one line for four hours. With a ten-year-old. And I had to get up before dawn to wait in it. But what makes it a little different from the lines we have around here is: I enjoyed it.
If you must know, it was in England – a country that takes line waiting so seriously, they even have a more elegant word for it: queuing. And the queue in question was at Wimbledon – for grounds passes to the famed All England Lawn Tennis Championship.
If you must know, the Wimbledon queue is the best way to get early-round tickets. There are actually 19 courts in full operation during at least the first week of the tournament, and the difference between Centre Court matches and matches on, say, Court 11 is mostly the TV exposure and nationalities of the players involved. If you’re interested, Wimbledon sets aside 500 tickets for each of the show courts – Centre, One and Two – for queuers (is that a word?) every day.
by Guest Contributor, · July 29th, 2008 
