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What are your favorite ways to pass the time in line?

Dec 13, 2012 2:57 PM

So despite my better judgement and my firm stance that "I am far too old for this nonsense", only because it is my friend's birthday and because I'm not going to be able to attend any other of her related birthday festivities this weekend, I'm headed to go stand in line for the Hobbit tonight. Fortunately it looks like there will be about a dozen of us (so we'll have the whole dinner and bathroom break thing covered). On the other hand, we're meeting at pretty early in the evening to hop in line.

What sort of suggestions do you have in terms of entertainment to pass the time?

ps. please be kind to sleepy inky tomorrow, I wasn't clever enough to ask for the morning off.

inkycatz inkycatz

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I don't have any good advice considering my only midnight showing didn't require me actually waiting. The only time I ever went to a midnight showing (against my will, mostly) was the last Harry Potter movie last year. Instead of waiting in line for hours we showed up about 5 minutes bofore they started selling tickets and just walked in the doors bypassing the hunreds of people waiting in line. No one said anything to us, I waited about 5 minutes, bought our tickets and went to our screen. Maybe it was a fluke, but if I ever go to a midnight showing I'm trying that one again.

eraten eraten
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With a dozen of you, it would seem conversation should not be lacking.

morriea morriea
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Pick my nose, or, when with someone else at a store, I incessantly pretend to change my mind about something I'm buying or talk about running back really quick to grab something else. That, combined with quick, motion-fakes back towards the store, keeps the people in line behind us constantly perturbed. :)

dmaz dmaz
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For movie lines, those of us that work bribe out of work friends with buying their tickets and snacks at the movie in exchange for them standing in line for all of us. We arrive only a little more than an hour before the movie to join them in line. Place holding is an accepted practice here, the theaters have rules; no more than 10 places held per person in line, everyone must be in their places before the line is moved inside the theater about an hour before the film starts. In supermarket lines I chat up the people around me. In very long lines, such as those for Black Friday or anything having to do with Comicon, my tablet has become an indispensable entertainment device.

moondrake moondrake
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Think classic Andrew Dice Clay.

hottubrf hottubrf
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The hobbit premier should be prime people watching territory.

tippypaws tippypaws
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Isn't this one of the reasons flasks were invented?

kmeltzer kmeltzer
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@kmeltzer: You know, thinking so. (Upvoting for you!)

inkycatz inkycatz
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I'm curretly checking DW to pass the time while standing in line. :)

neuropsychosocial neuropsychosocial
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I make up (usually terrible) back stories for people I see while waiting in line (or at a sparsely populated bar).

rockytrh rockytrh
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Yes, "people watch"... also known as getting your creep on!. Pro tip: wear mirrored sunglasses and they'll never know what you're staring at!

bsmith1 bsmith1
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If I may be so bold to assume that you have a smartphone there are several links on this site.

jsimsace jsimsace
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Charades. Get fellow line-standers involved. Play a crazy long game of telephone - hobbit related. Start an impromptu a-capella group.

*costume spotting/geek referencing drinking game!

thumperchick thumperchick

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