Saturday, May 29, 2010

Satan loves line-ups; I don't

I hate line-ups, and I know everyone does; but I'm not saying that because I'm impatient, but I honestly think line-ups are part of the curse of sin.  "Because you ate the fruit you will work the ground, child birth is gonna suck and you will feel the wrath of line-ups."  I don't necessarily mind having to wait for something, someone, or to go somewhere; the thing that really bothers me about line-ups is how everyone acts in them.  Take for example my days at Briercrest; line-ups were my daily nemesis in the cafeteria.  Three times a day I would line-up with everyone else in go in and eat, but there were always some boneheads who would just budge in line.  Now I don't know if you are someone who budges, or lets people budge, but here's my problem with budging: when you budge you are telling everyone behind you that you're better than them; it doesn't matter that they patiently waited because you're going in ahead of them.  What is it about line-ups that will disregard everyone around us in such a way?  Or when the door opens on something and we push and shove our way through everyone; what's so important? Not only do line-ups bring out the worst in us, but our most annoying characteristics come out:  we'll humm some annoying tune, tap something, tell some boring story, or gossip about everyone around us.  Aside from our rudeness, annoyance of those around, there's the monotonous boredom of waiting in line and wasting our time.  Add up all these things and I think that line-ups are the devil's delight; part of sin's curse.  I can picture hell full of line-ups; torturing people for an eternity.  So line-ups are just another one of those things that leaves a bad taste for this world and makes me long for a better life beyond.