I just try to learn a better English and I found this funny story in my "practice book":
"Most people are rather shy about it, and always deny that they adore it.
In most countries, if people are waiting at a bus-stop they stand around in a disorderly fashion. When the bus arrives they make a dash for it and push their way on. An English person, even if he or she is alone, forms an orderly queue of one and waits patiently.
At weekends, the Londoner queues up at the bus-stop, travels out to the country, queues up for a boat, then queues up for a tea, then queues up for ice cream, then joins a few more odd queues just for the fun of it, then queues up at a bus-stop and has the time of his/her life. For most people this would be a boring way of spending a free day, for the English it is an exciting day out."
And yes - I saw these queues in London, in Manchester, in Newcastle, in Sheffield.....
