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If you find yourself waiting in a long queue at an airport or bus terminus
this holiday, will you try to analyze what it is about queuing that makes you
angry Or will you just get angry with the nearest official
Professor Richard Larson, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, hates queuing but rather than tear his hair out, he
decided to study the subject. (46) . He cites an experiment
at Houston airport where passengers had to walk for one minute from the plane to
the baggage reclaim and then wait a further seven minutes to collect their
luggage. Complaints were frequent, especially from those who had spent seven
minutes watching passengers with just hand baggage get out immediately.
The airport authorities decided to lengthen the walk from the
aircraft, so that instead of a oneminute fast walk, the passengers spent six
minutes walking (47) .The extra walk extended the delay by
five minutes for those carrying only hand baggage, but passenger complaints
dropped almost to zero. The reason Larson suggests that it all
has to do with what he calls "social justice". If people see others taking a
short cut, they will find the wait unbearable.48 (48) .
Another aspect Larson studied was the observation that people
get more fed up if they are not told what is going on. (49) .
But even knowing how long we have to wait isn’t the whole
answer. We must also believe that everything is being clone to minimize our
delay. Larson cites the example of two neighboring American banks. One was
highly computerized and served a customer, on average, every 30 seconds.
(50) . But because the tellers at the second bank looked
extremely busy, customers believed the service was {aster and many transferred
their accounts to the slower bank. Ultimately, the latter had to introduce
timewasting ways of appearing more dynamic. A.So in the case of
the airport, it was preferable to delay everyone. B.The other
bank was less automated and took twice as long. C.When they
finally arrived at the baggage reclaim, the delay was then only two minutes.
D.His first finding, which backs up earlier work at the US
National Science Foundation, was that the degree of annoyance was not directly
related to the time. E.It’s unbearable for the airport to delay
everyone. F.Passengers told that there will be a halfhour delay
are less unhappy than those left waiting even twenty minutes without an
explanation.