If the people who study the psychology of waiting in line – yes, there is such a thing – have an origin story, it’s this:It was the 1950s, and a high-rise office building in Manhattan had a ...

Queuing theory examines every component of waiting in line, including the arrival process and the number of customers among others, which might be people, data packets, cars, or anything else.

The line for one Toy Story-themed ride, for example, features giant murals, oversized toys and a five-foot-tall animatronic Mr. Potato Head, who entertains those waiting in line with a semi ...

NEW YORK—Are you crazy enough to brave the elements waiting in line at an Apple Store for more than two weeks waiting for an iPhone 6? It's not as crazy as it sounds to 25-year old Mississippi ...

Just like a busy signal, bad lines can be damaging to businesses, and a single catastrophic line experience can stay with us for a long time. Larson tells of an incident he suffered years ago in a ...

What You Hate Most About Waiting in Line (It’s not the length of the wait.) By Seth Stevenson. ... For example: Midcentury New York featured a rush-hour crisis—not out on the roads, ...

The Tesla Model 3, the car that’s supposed to make or break Tesla, will be revealed tonight. Tesla started taking orders for the Model 3 today, however, and people actually started lining up to ...