Queues + Kenyans

It came to me this week, show a Kenyan a queue and they'll want to get to the front of it. Its like a conditioning that we've all gone through I think.

We have queues everywhere literally, especially in Nairobi; lets list the queues that you'd go through in your average day in the capital of the +254 

• The bathroom
• The iron box
• To exit the estate at rush hour
• To enter the estate in the evening rush hour
• The bank
• The supermarket

If there is a service that a Kenyan needs there is probably a queue.

Lets face it if you don't leave home at a considerably early and insane hour more so with the advent of Kidero's drums (5 AM to start work at 8 AM) your whole commute will be a queue. From the moment you exit the estate to getting a parking slot in town. Jam as you will find out (if you don't already know) can find you inside your estate and escort you slowly all the way to your office. Is it that we are too many people in this city?
I digress though. So basically from the moment you leave the comfy warmth of your bed you most likely face a queue in at some point in your efforts to reach the office. 

Take for example the queue at the bank or at a government office, I challenge you to calculate the amount of time you spend in a queue especially if you live in Nairobi.

What is worse than queues that we face is the behavior of some Kenyans' in those queues, and it is the most annoying thing that you can face in any given day. There types of Kenyans you face in queues:

• Emergency Workers: those who have to get to the front of the line, they overlap shamelessly because as you guessed it - they are on their way to an emergency
• VIP's: they know someone controlling the front of the line so because of their important status they get to skip the line all together
• Needy children: they have no concept of what personal space means. Instead each space they see in front of them is a space they should be in, so close to the person in front of them that they case one shadow. They have no concept of personal space - I strongly suspect that the people in city planning fall in this category
• Touchy People: they love their personal space and are allergic to crowds.

It's like when a Kenyan see's a space in a line, it's in their DNA to fill that space - creating a lifestyle of gridlock

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