Line-waiter Extraordinaire Prints

Skeleton in supermarket checkout queue

'I hear they're really good.'

La Table

"So this coffee shop if your 'hangout'?"

"May I put you on hold? I was on another line."

'Funny, I thought a near-death experience would be different, somehow.'

"Funny, I don't remember signing up for this."

Medical Center.

Distractions: Work Disputes

'Hold on, there might be someone more interesting on the other line...'

"I'm on the haywain."

Now Playing: Christmas ? The Ultimate feel-Good Musical!

I'm snagged on the bottom. I'll have to break the line.

'Talk about being squeezed in between appointments.'

Overworked

Office worker with baby in drawer.

"That's the part of hands-free technology that creeps me out... on-hold music karaoke."

"Trust me, this place is worth the wait."

'Don't get me wrong - hell is awful, but it could be so much more hellish. We have much to learn from them.'

'How many more days until we let them know it's just a joke?'

'His is a working breed.'

"Latte for a guy you're sure ordered after you."

"Hey, you can't cut in line like that! - Who do you think you are?"

"As receptionist, you'll be answering the phone, greeting customers and doing whatever else they dump on you."

Chocolate factory workers on the job - one with his face covered with chocolate - 'Your first day on the job...?'

'No, I'm still standing in this stupid line looking at the back of somebody's stupid head.'

"Please stay on the line for the next available agent - unless, of course, you are feeling tired, very tired, or maybe hungry. . ."

'Would the jerk who just cut in front of the Starbucks line please report to a white discourtesy phone.'

Early multitasking - caveman.

Hey, little buddy. How's it going in there? You fall in? Occupied! I know it's occupied, little buddy. We all know. It's been occupied for 30 minutes. There's a long line out here. I said "occupied!" When a person says "occupied" from in here, that's supposed to buy another 10 minutes at least. "Occupied" is not a magic word, little buddy. Inhabited! That neither. We're all still here.

Look, Mrs. Cohen, I'm on the phone, while also text messaging, surging the web and watching tv. You @#%$? nincompoop! Do one thing at a time you inane, geeky, nerdy, cone-headed boob! Ooh, it gets me so ... so ... Multi-taunting. Cruel and quite unusual.

Candles: Mom burning at both ends.

"I never use the Express Lane. I like to keep my money a little longer."

'It's a Mothers, G.P.S., it guides you through all the problems of the day.'

"... Or, if you're still listening to all of these automated options and we can't put you off making this call, press 9."