After claiming our intended purchase, we waited in line. (Have you ever seen two boys, ages seven and nine, wait in a line?) Not without a penchant for distraction myself, I wandered momentarily out of the cue and asked the boys to stay in line.
You get back in the car, drive to the pharmacy, wait in a line for your prescription, pay for it.
The government is insisting that the new operators must cut the wait for a line to four weeks by the end of next year.
Another option is to grab a FastPass and wait in a traditional line outdoors.
For a more interactive consultation, you can chat live with a lawyer, but prepare to wait in line a while.
Twenty-year-old twins Leon and Raquel Papu, sophomores at Babson and Tufts University, respectively, have called upon their BCCG concierge to intervene in a landlord dispute, wait for a plumber and line up Boston Celtics tickets.
To deal with potential crowds, Verizon set up a system where customers had to wait outside in line, fill out a card and wait for a sales representative before entering the store.
Then you wait in a third line to hand somebody the handwritten ID form and have your paper ballot optically scanned by a scanning machine.
Prices are reasonable, electricity blackouts are relatively rare, and even if the average wait for a phone line is over eight months, Costa Rica has better telephone coverage than much of the region (see chart).
If you don't want to wait in line for a table, head around the corner to Yungkang Street, where several restaurants offer similar fare.
Requiring people wait in line at a local government office is an increasingly rare practice, and will likely be phased out entirely in our lifetime.
At Walt Disney World, families travel in packs - with younger kids waiting in the wings while older siblings attack rides with death-defying drops, and older siblings dragging their feet as younger kids wait in line for a photo op with Mickey.
Flights that took off without a wait can now end up stuck waiting behind a line of jets because departure times have been changed.
I've been fighting more generally to improve health care for veterans because it is outrageous that so many service members are returning home and being told to take a number and wait in line for the health care they need.
Today, with Katrina-tinted spectacles, America wants to prepare but must wait at the end of a long line for its supplies.
The most famous athlete of the moment looked like just another guy ready to wait in line for brunch on a weekend afternoon.
On a breakout, conservative traders will wait for a second consecutive close above or below the wedge line for confirmation.
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Envirosell, a retail consultancy, has timed shoppers in line with a stopwatch to determine how real wait times compared with how long shoppers felt they had waited.
Some folks in KC knock it for being too highbrow, though there are still no tablecloths and it is not especially expensive, but sometimes t is nice to make reservation rather than wait (sometimes hours) on a long line.
Members of the media had to wait in line outside the courtroom until 9 a.m. before passes were distributed allowing them entry.
"You are relegating adopted parents to go to the back of the bus and wait in line if they want to adopt" a native American child, she said.
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International, the world's busiest airport, offers "Trak-a-Line, " a service that e-mails passengers when there is a change in wait times for security screening.
However, be prepared to wait in line for at least 10 hours to acquire a doorbuster deal.
He had arranged to meet her at the finishing line but faced a three-hour wait before he was reunited with her.
When shoppers look back at their overall waiting experience, they tend to put more weight on how fast or slow a line moved toward the end of their wait.
The India reception supposedly had around 400 people but I decided not to wait on line after I heard that only 7 people a minute could get through the security scanning machines.
In 25 regions of the country, in large cities and small towns alike, they will line up in their school courtyards and wait for a signal.
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Wheelchair-service providers say some passengers running late for a flight will request immediate wheelchair service simply to cut to the front of the security line or to avoid a typical hour-plus wait at Immigration when entering the country.
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Just look at all the folks who wait in line and brave hoards of fellow Black Friday shoppers to save a few bucks: People will often expend more effort saving money than it would take them to earn the same amount of cash.
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