Queueing is being rebranded as a nice way to meet people. But that depends on what you’re waiting for | Emma Beddington (opens in new tab)

It’s a short step from laughing in the line for artisan pastries to grimly waiting to buy a loaf of sliced white. Are we just rehearsing for food shortages?It’s hot – fancy a frozen yoghurt? Probably not, given that ice-cream exists, but a reporter recently queued for an hour to experience the city’s fro-yo craze with 74 other patient souls, long enough, she wrote, to “feel affection for my cluster of line, the kind of camaraderie you develop with fellow passengers on a delayed flight”. The y...