Lines, lines, everywhere lines..
by Travis Combs
The Metropolitan
I read somewhere many years ago that the average citizen in any industrialized society spends, on average, eight years of their lifetime standing in line. Wanting something, the glazed- over look of this typical citizen rationalizes to himself that if a hundred other people are waiting and wanting the same thing then it surely must be important. Important enough to suffer for.
Next.
The Department of Motor Vehicles, the movie theater, and of course, the Financial Aid Office in the Central Classroom are places where one just does their time. A fraction of the vast expanse of eight years, which is massive in human terms.
Next.
Enjoy it if you must. Most of us, of course, need our government-issued cheese and peanut butter as much as anyone else. Open your mouth and strike up a conversation. Anything to kill time in line.
Above: The labyrinthine line at the Auraria Campus Bookstore in the Tivoli Building has been known to eat away at students' time in excess of an hour.
Below: Mind-boggling lines at the beginning of the semester near the Campus resource Center in the Tivoli is another option for students to whittle away their time here on earth. Meeting new people is one way to use this predicament in a beneficial manner.
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