We are good at two things in this country... queing and moaning. We like queing so we can have a damn good moan about it

Apparently (and I have no first hand experience to back this up), Italians are the worst - if they see something they want, they go for it, and to hell with everyone else. I was with some Scottish friends in an undisclosed country recently where we had to que for food; we literally had to stand shoulder to shoulder and shuffle along as one human snake in order to stop foreigners (I won't say from which country) barging in. Of course, the foreigners were nice people notwithstanding the fact that they just didn't know how to wait their turn, which suggests that the ability to que is a cultural thing.
There was a good point made on the BBC's coverage of the Presidential Election last night about people queing for three hours (Americans must have some idea how to do it then!) - did that mean it was a great Democracy that its citizens were willing to wait that long to vote, or did it mean it was so poorly organised that people had to que that long? Could be both, of course.