Picking the Wrong Queue: Making peace with where we are

Photo by Adrien Delforge on Unsplash

For much of my life, getting the fastest checkout queue has been a secret compulsion at the end of most supermarket shops. As I approach the checkouts, I scan to see if everybody else missed one that is free. Of course that’s a rare event, so after a fleeting sense of disappointment, so subtle it can easily go unnoticed, I look for the one with the shortest queue. I also conduct lightning-fast…