it is a fact universally acknowledged that when you see thirty Chinese lined up patiently outside a fast food vendor it is worth your while to step in behind them without even knowing WTF you're waiting for

My friend John says this was also true in Poland in the '80s under the Communists, 'cept not fast food lines but any lines anywhere, and probably what was at the front of the line wasn't something delicious but something necessary but not always available.