doing 'waiting' in other places.

I was in Sydney recently for some fieldwork and as i was waiting for a bus on Elizabeth Street to head to Bondi - I was going to an interview, honest - my attention was drawn to how people were waiting. As I had a ten minute wait for my bus I had time to observe how people actively did 'waiting' for a bus in Australia and to think about it in contrast to my learnt act of waiting in Britain.

Firstly what attracted my attention was the absence of an obvious line. Unlike British bus waiters who edge the road along one side of a bus stop in hierarchical  order, people stood in what seemed like random intervals from each other in a perpendicular fashion from the stop on the wide footpath. Not many sought information on the bus stop itself which was indicative of their status as regular travellers rather people simply stopped walking in the general vicinity of the bus stop. And waited. Pedestrians became bus waiters simply by the nature of their movement rather than their location. The boundary area for waiting was difficult at first to discern as people stood against office buildings, near the road work fencing and close to the road. Simply by arriving within the boundaries of the waiting area pedestrians became bus waiters. Pedestrians not wanting a bus continued to walk along the footpath, weaving through the waiters. Despite the lack of an obvious line a distinct hierarchy  of waiters could be discerned after a period of observation and the movement of people on and off arriving buses. The random formation of waiters was in fact a clearly demarcated pattern that was merely dormant until catalysed by the arrival of a bus. Upon the sighting of a bus people started to move forward, in order of arrival. Some people walked faster to the door, others hung back and waited their turn.

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I think that the saying that Britons are good at queuing is a myth. I've been living in Switzerland for a few years and have noticed the same which you've seen; other nationalities are much better at queuing. They can do it in a polite and relaxed way and not have to place themselves in a strict formation, guarding their place jealously. Have you noticed, too, that "pushing in" abroad is almost always a mistake, rather than an agressive manoeuvre?