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The people in the queue seem to have no dignity whatsoever, because they are made to wait while I go to the &#8216;first class&#8217; counter.<br \/>\nBut I don&#8217;t feel any dignity at being able to walk past all these people to the front of the queue.<br \/>\nI can feel them putting me in the same dock as some dictator just arrested and made to lie in a cage on a bed.<br \/>\nDespite my sympathy for those people made to stand in a queue, every time my bank forces me to wait, I let them have it.<br \/>\nI had a extremely enjoyable five minute argument with barclay&#8217;s staff once after they failed to open the counter on time. The last word was &#8216;Next time, don&#8217;t keep me waiting&#8217;.<br \/>\nAnother time, I told one of their counter staff to take their good service sign down because it was all a pack of lies. <\/p>\n<p>I felt dignity walk out with me then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I go into my local bank I always go straight to the front of the queue because I am a business customer. The people in the queue seem to have no dignity whatsoever, because they are made to wait &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2011\/08\/i-dont-know-where-dignity-is\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3Wm4j-4M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1388,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2013\/07\/my-ultimate-man-woman-fantasy\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":0},"title":"My ultimate man woman fantasy","author":"taxicle","date":"July 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Is man waiting in long queue to mine coal in some depression era coal mine while woman waits at home baking a cake with mud and grass.","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":586,"url":"https:\/\/astarmathsandphysics.com\/blog\/paulsmith\/2012\/06\/ed-miliband-becomes-rabid-rasisct\/","url_meta":{"origin":296,"position":1},"title":"Ed Miliband becomes rabid rasisct","author":"taxicle","date":"June 22, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The labour leader says foreigners are not equal British citizens and should take second place in the queue for jobs. 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