Sunderland Queues – From Roker Turnstiles to Phone Scans
One thing about this country is that we know how to queue! Well, apart from when a new check-out till opens in Tesco, then it’s whoever gets there first. Right from our early days we have had to queue.
We had to queue when we were in lines with our class, waiting to go into school. We queued for school dinners. We queued at the bus stop.
We queue at supermarkets. Sometimes we have to queue at the bar – although usually, whoever is in the bartender’s eye line gets served next – not every barman can be as aware of their customers as I was! ‘Sorry mate, the guy at the end of the bar is next.
’ We are so used to queuing, we just do it, no-one complains. Of course, we have to queue to get into the match, and no amount of tinkering with how we get in will change that. Before a big game in the 70s and 80s, we could queue for ages before the gates were open, just to make sure we got in.
Because of course, it was a pay-at-the-gate kind of affair. Queuing for a bus used to be a bit of a social gathering, and if you stood in the queue for the same bus every day, you got to know somebody. The Hollies even wrote a song about it.
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