There's a whole discipline, called queuing theory, on scheduling service to cope with intermittent demand.
But it's the second unintentional irony of all this queuing that is even more delicious.
On Thursday, Venezuelans queuing to view Mr Chavez's body chanted: "With Maduro, the people are safe!"
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Quite often they can film guerrilla style while you and I are queuing for our bagel.
Around 80% turned out, some queuing for over 12 hours and then voting by candlelight.
There have been many reports of ambulances queuing up outside Welsh hospitals in recent weeks.
Supermarkets have lots of shoppers with lots of stuff in their carts queuing for checkout.
People queuing up to carry the ball, but almost getting in each other's way.
The Highways Agency wants to change its layout to stop queuing traffic in the area.
Off Santos, Brazil's biggest port, a line of ships queuing to load stretches to the horizon.
Even rich customers may find that more convenient than queuing to pay their telephone bill.
The alliance has five projects pending approval, and several multinational firms queuing up to join.
Those queuing up for beer have to remove their sunglasses to prove they are not half-cut.
These days it is Chang In-Sok and his neighbours who are queuing up for handouts.
They keep queuing for sugar and queuing just to get money out of the bank.
Mrs Shikhmuradova remembers watching people queuing up in the council chamber to demand even worse punishment.
People wander giddily from rollercoaster to rocket, patiently queuing for the next thrill.
It automatically monitors and measures airport journey and queuing times by tracking passengers' Bluetooth mobile phone signals.
Some shoppers began queuing at midnight the day before the phone went on sale, the blog added.
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That sort of thing goes down badly with politicians, and they are queuing up to propose fixes.
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They have been spotted shopping at the local supermarket and queuing with ordinary citizens for health check-ups.
The government managed to stop depositors queuing to withdraw their savings only by guaranteeing all their money.
Ambulances can be queuing outside and delays can be experienced once a patient is admitted into the hospital.
And finally, yes, of course there is a Tumblr of photographs of Cypriots queuing at cash machines.
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Traffic had been queuing as far back as Cardiff Gate as diversions were put in place around Newport.
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It is not uncommon to dial up to 50 times before even getting through to the queuing system.
"The night san software is also subject to random crashes which disrupt the queuing system, " the report said.
The queuing system used introduces a huge delay between downloading the app and actually being able to use it.
Entrepreneurs were queuing up to scour rubbish for anything that could be recycled.
In Southampton, Hampshire, there were 1, 700 plots being used and more than 2, 000 people queuing up to take one.
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