Two Christmases ago, I was renting a car. Right after Southwest cancelled approximately a million flights. So there were almost no rental cars. You basically waited in line until one was returned and then the next person would wait, etc. I waited 8 hours for a car. Walkable cities anyone?
The first week of lockdowns, line for restaurant workers to get free food from a restaurant before it went bad. Three blocks long.
Ah, I remember being at the grocery store when it first started happening and they were only letting so many people in at a time, so they had turned their parking lot into a queue by flipping grocery carts over and tying police tape from cart to cart
I waited for over 12 hours to get a Wii back when it launched. It was pretty fun, but I’ve never waited like that again since.
I think it’s got to be for some ride at an amusement park, I can’t of anywhere else I’ve willingly waited in line over 3 hours for something.
I waited in line for 3 hours to ride Avatar Flight of Passage for the first time at Disney.
Was the ride everything you dreamed of
I was in Disney shortly after that opened. I had a cousin who interned there and old me the ride was amazing, but with that kind of wait and the fact that I never cared about the Avatar movies, I couldn’t be bothered. Went on the other avatar themed ride though since the line was shorter and it was pretty neat. Classic boat dark ride iirc, but the animatronics were well designed, as they generally are when you have the money Disney has.
I didn’t dislike that ride, and the animatronic was amazing, but that’s just it. I feel like Disney could have done something more with the ride.
It was pretty awesome. It was still not worth 3 hours wait. I would probably wait an hour and a half to do it again.
3 days I think. For a PS3 at launch
I think I waited for about 2 and a half days for mine. Turns out the Walmart I was at didn’t get as many as they said so they gave me an iou. Fortunately they did actually get them in a week later.
I’ve been waiting in line to die for the last 43yrs, I’m not in rush, so it’s okay.
Virtual, about three years to get a reservation to hike through an area with severe restrictions to protect it.
IRL, I waited with my cousin for a roller coaster for about three hours and I was pissed about it. Half the day at the park spent waiting for a single ride.
Was the area you hiked worth the wait?
Yes, and I’m extra glad I was able to do the hike when I did because they have since shut down access entirely for at least a few years to allow the ecosystem to heal itself after some assholes snuck in and caused damage.
The roller coaster definitely wasn’t worth it.
Does waiting on the phone count? If so, six hours to get someone at the IRS, so they could fix the mistake in 2 minutes.
That’s wild. I feel like the phone network is too dicey, like my call would have dropped at some point over six hours
Otakon registration line, probably about 2014. The line wrapped the Baltimore convention center two times.
3 hour long Disneyland line for the log ride splash mountain whatever
In the grand scheme of long lines, this one isn’t super long, but it’s what I got.
2017, my wife and I took a road trip to Tennessee for the solar eclipse because Nashville was just about the only major city in the path of totality. We were down there for about a week, we didn’t have any particularly solid plans and we’re flying by the seat of our pants, we snagged the last couple of campsites in that part of the state, and pretty much started out every day with googling around for stuff to do in Tennessee.
One day, we decided to take a trip down to the Jack Daniels distillery. We’re both whiskey-drinkers, Jack isn’t our usual thing, but we don’t dislike it either, and figured we might as well check it out while we were in the state. Their distillery isn’t exactly close to Nashville, but we didn’t have anything else going on so we were up for the drive.
Now a lot of people traveled to Tennessee that week who otherwise wouldn’t have ever had a reason to go, I’ve since met a good handful of people who were in or around Nashville at the same time as us for eclipse, so I’m sure this was probably a particularly busy time for JD.
We got there, stood in line for probably about 45 minutes, slowly snaking our way though the little mini museum in their visitor center. We didn’t mind the wait, we took the time to compare the different tours they offered and by the time we got to the front of the line we had made our decision.
Unfortunately we were informed at that time that all of the tours we were interested in taking were sold out, and the only one they had available was one where you don’t get to try any of the whiskey (for those not familiar, they’re actually located in a dry county, so not even like you could just go to a bar down the street and do your own whiskey tasting afterwards)
At no point during the 45 minutes we waited in line did they make any kind of announcement, or put up a sign or anything to let us know those tours were sold out. If they had we probably would have just rolled with it and done the tour that was available, but after standing around for 45 minutes it felt like a bit of a bait and switch to us and we decided to just leave at that point.
I also kind of boycotted JD for a few years after that, which was mostly symbolic because I never really bought Jack anyway. I have lifted my boycott fairly recently though, I decided when they had an add campaign that featured drag queens that I could reward that bit of wokeness, although I still haven’t actually bought any jack.
Most dedicated boycotter:
Burning Man entry and exit lines, some years ago. Took ages to get in and out!
Longest, and most fun line I’ve ever waited in. 9 hours last time.
I’ve seen many dipsticks camping in lines for days just to buy a piece of crap phone that didn’t even have copy/paste capabilities.
4.5 hours to reschedule a cancelled connecting flight, which was then also cancelled and required another 3 hours in line the next morning, after a couple hours sleep on the floor. This was at Seattle airport during the bad holiday delays like 2 years back
