basketdiva
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Post by basketdiva on Jan 6, 2024 2:51:00 GMT
An hour in a snow storm to get Tim McGraw tickets. And when we went to the concert there was so much moisture inside the arena ( a hockey arena) that chunks of ice and water were falling from the ceiling. I got hit in the wrist-no damage. We were offered towels and a seat on the floor with absolutely no view. Kept our seats with a the view and the towel.
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Post by Linda on Jan 6, 2024 3:08:48 GMT
I'm not a line person - I don't like crowds
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Post by peano on Jan 6, 2024 4:38:51 GMT
Probably a couple of hours to get into a Patti Smith concert at a NYC club. DH will never forgive me, especially since it was SRO. Physically I could no longer do it.
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peabay
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Jun 25, 2014 19:50:41 GMT
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Post by peabay on Jan 6, 2024 14:51:39 GMT
My daughter and I got on line to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the Hirschhorn art museum in DC at about 5:30 am - the museum opened at 10. I'd do it again. We had a lot of fun - and we weren't even the first on line!
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Post by mikklynn on Jan 6, 2024 14:54:59 GMT
I’ve never come across anything that was worth waiting hours in line for, or even sleeping overnight. Just not my jam. I waited maybe 30 minutes for Dayton's in Minneapolis to open to get my mom a Santa Bear, back when they were wildly popular and limited in quantities. Only for my mom!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Jan 6, 2024 15:01:53 GMT
3 hours to get on a cruise ship a big f up... I was going to say the two hours I sat in a doctor’s office past the time of my appointment, but your post reminded me of the time I got stuck waiting to get on a cruise ship in 2002 with my elderly mother and two sisters. OMG that line was SO.FREAKING.LONG! We must have been in that line for five hours. My mom was antsy and complaining. My sister had just had a medical procedure a few days before and wasn’t supposed to walk or stand for long periods of time so she was crabby and uncomfortable. Meanwhile, my other sister and I were trying to help the other two with their luggage (that would be luggage for four people, for almost two weeks, so yeah) and it was definitely not a fun way to start a vacation.
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maryannscraps
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Post by maryannscraps on Jan 6, 2024 15:44:28 GMT
In college I waited in line for a while (I don’t even remember how long, but it was pretty long) to get Red Sox playoff tickets. But other than that, I don’t even wait more than 15-20 minutes to sit down at a restaurant. Not a fan of crowds.
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Post by sideways on Jan 6, 2024 15:46:40 GMT
I’m Gen X! Waiting overnight for concert tickets was almost as much fun as going to the concert! Those were the days when you could actually get front row tickets (I had row 3 for Duran Duran and row 9 for Micheal Jackson). Yup. We had so much fun camping out for concert tickets. The two I remember most was Journey in 1983, and Springsteen in 1985. Tickets didn’t go on sale almost a year before the event then, either. It was only a few months before the show.
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Post by Merge on Jan 6, 2024 16:52:12 GMT
I’m Gen X! Waiting overnight for concert tickets was almost as much fun as going to the concert! Those were the days when you could actually get front row tickets (I had row 3 for Duran Duran and row 9 for Micheal Jackson). Yup. We had so much fun camping out for concert tickets. The two I remember most was Journey in 1983, and Springsteen in 1985. Tickets didn’t go on sale almost a year before the event then, either. It was only a few months before the show. Missed out on that seminal GenX experience. Even if I had wanted to wait in line/camp out, I never had money for concert tickets. DH spent his adolescence in Colorado Springs, though, and has fond memories of lining up/camping out at Red Rocks for various shows back in the day when GA was at the front of the house and those who got there early could get right up by the stage.
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huskergal
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Jun 25, 2014 20:22:13 GMT
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Post by huskergal on Jan 6, 2024 17:01:27 GMT
Several hours in a 48 hour period including overnight to buy tickets for Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA" concert.
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Post by katlady on Jan 6, 2024 17:08:59 GMT
I don't know how anyone can sleep on a sidewalk--I could never relax enough to sleep with strangers around, out in public, unless I drugged myself and even then it's doubtful. I can barely sleep at home! Tent camping also requires Ambien but at least there I'm not in line surrounded by other people. You don't sleep, at least not at the Rose Parade. Cars are still allowed on the street until 10PM. They drive by honking and yelling. Then at 11PM, you can move off the sidewalk into the street (up to a blue line). At midnight, it is New Years so there is a lot of celebrations going on. It is a big party. You may nap here and there, but you don't really get to sleep much. My daughter and I probably waited in line three hours total to see a Yayoi Kusama art exhibit in DC. We probably waited 90 minutes to get our timed pass and then when we came back we probably had to wait another 90 minutes. It was nice that it was split up. My daughter and I got on line to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the Hirschhorn art museum in DC at about 5:30 am - the museum opened at 10. I'd do it again. We had a lot of fun - and we weren't even the first on line! I liked the way the museum in Los Angeles handled it. You got timed tickets online. We got to downtown LA about an hour before our time and went to a coffee shop for about 30 minutes. We got in line 30 minutes before our scheduled time. There was also a line for people without tickets. The average wait time was about 2-3 hours before they could get in. We went to 2 of her shows. The first one was just her infinity room. The second exhibit was the big one with a lot of different rooms and exhibits.
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ellen
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Jun 30, 2014 12:52:45 GMT
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Post by ellen on Jan 6, 2024 17:26:32 GMT
My daughter and I got on line to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the Hirschhorn art museum in DC at about 5:30 am - the museum opened at 10. I'd do it again. We had a lot of fun - and we weren't even the first on line! That exhibit was one of the coolest things I have done. Laurie Anderson’s exhibit had recently opened at the Hirschhorn and it was enjoyable to take in the work of two very unique artists. After we got our timed pass we had enough time to walk the mall and go through the other exhibit. I really miss my daughter being stationed at Walter Reed. I loved our visits to DC. Southern California is nice to visit too, but the opportunity to take in really cool things at no cost can’t compare to what you can do in DC.
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peabay
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Jun 25, 2014 19:50:41 GMT
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Post by peabay on Jan 6, 2024 17:43:57 GMT
I don't know how anyone can sleep on a sidewalk--I could never relax enough to sleep with strangers around, out in public, unless I drugged myself and even then it's doubtful. I can barely sleep at home! Tent camping also requires Ambien but at least there I'm not in line surrounded by other people. You don't sleep, at least not at the Rose Parade. Cars are still allowed on the street until 10PM. They drive by honking and yelling. Then at 11PM, you can move off the sidewalk into the street (up to a blue line). At midnight, it is New Years so there is a lot of celebrations going on. It is a big party. You may nap here and there, but you don't really get to sleep much. My daughter and I probably waited in line three hours total to see a Yayoi Kusama art exhibit in DC. We probably waited 90 minutes to get our timed pass and then when we came back we probably had to wait another 90 minutes. It was nice that it was split up. My daughter and I got on line to see the Yayoi Kusama exhibit at the Hirschhorn art museum in DC at about 5:30 am - the museum opened at 10. I'd do it again. We had a lot of fun - and we weren't even the first on line! I liked the way the museum in Los Angeles handled it. You got timed tickets online. We got to downtown LA about an hour before our time and went to a coffee shop for about 30 minutes. We got in line 30 minutes before our scheduled time. There was also a line for people without tickets. The average wait time was about 2-3 hours before they could get in. We went to 2 of her shows. The first one was just her infinity room. The second exhibit was the big one with a lot of different rooms and exhibits.Yes, there were people with timed tickets bought online. We didn't get tickets so we were the folks that had to wait!
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grammanisi
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Jun 26, 2014 1:37:37 GMT
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Post by grammanisi on Jan 6, 2024 17:54:28 GMT
Lines are my biggest nemesis. I can't stand waiting in lines. Long, short I don't care! However! I have waited in long lines at Disney World and Cedar Point. The longest was for New Kids on the Block tickets for my daughter.
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katybee
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Jun 25, 2014 23:25:39 GMT
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Post by katybee on Jan 6, 2024 18:00:13 GMT
Yup. We had so much fun camping out for concert tickets. The two I remember most was Journey in 1983, and Springsteen in 1985. Tickets didn’t go on sale almost a year before the event then, either. It was only a few months before the show. Missed out on that seminal GenX experience. Even if I had wanted to wait in line/camp out, I never had money for concert tickets. Oh yeah….you didn’t have to take out a mortgage to buy tickets! I could afford them with the money I made working at the local department store. I went to so many concerts! I sure can’t do that these days.
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pancakes
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Post by pancakes on Jan 6, 2024 18:03:44 GMT
I was at the DMV for 5 hours one time 🫠🫠ðŸ«
I learned never to go at the end of the year again. That’s when all the taxi and livery drivers renew their stuff.
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Post by katlady on Jan 6, 2024 18:07:40 GMT
I was at the DMV for 5 hours one time 🫠🫠🫠I learned never to go at the end of the year again. That’s when all the taxi and livery drivers renew their stuff. I went on Christmas Eve one year and it was the best! No one was there!
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pancakes
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Post by pancakes on Jan 6, 2024 18:10:37 GMT
I was at the DMV for 5 hours one time 🫠🫠🫠I learned never to go at the end of the year again. That’s when all the taxi and livery drivers renew their stuff. I went on Christmas Eve one year and it was the best! No one was there! I went on the 26th that year…the worst!!
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Post by Bridget in MD on Jan 6, 2024 18:25:06 GMT
I stood in line for Black Friday sales at Target - maybe 2-3 hrs? - for the ipad on sale. And same for Walmart to get a new iphone when I needed a new one. Now they are all sold online!
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Post by CarolinaGirl71 on Jan 6, 2024 18:50:26 GMT
about 1984? I waited about an hour for a Cabbage Patch doll, for a Christmas present for DD, who was 4 years old at the time. They were sold out by the time I got there.
About a month later, I went back and got her one for her birthday! No line. All they had were boys, and she really wanted a girl, but I got it anyway and she loved it.
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scrappinmama
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Post by scrappinmama on Jan 6, 2024 21:33:57 GMT
When we were still dating, DH took me to Disneyland to celebrate my college graduation. We waited 2 hours for the Indiana Jones ride. It had just opened a couple months before, there was no fast pass back then so if you wanted to ride something, you had to wait.
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Post by momof4grandmaof2 on Jan 7, 2024 2:08:19 GMT
About 10 hours overnight in 19 degree weather in 1977 for Elvis tickets
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Post by KikiPea on Jan 7, 2024 4:10:59 GMT
I’ve never waited in line for anything but a restaurant, and my limit is 30-45 min.
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The Great Carpezio
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Post by The Great Carpezio on Jan 7, 2024 6:13:03 GMT
Concert tickets: Waited in front of Daytons (another reference to that old Minnesota mainstay department store). I think we started around 9 pm and got tickets around 8 am? We had sleeping bags and cinnamon schnapps. It was in the 20’s to mid teens for temps. November in mn —probably around 1992.
As far as a literal standing line? Probably four hours for Black Friday Best Buy maybe twenty or more years ago for a laptop for my Dh.
I can think of a few times I waited an hour or two to get into a GA concert, get on a ride, get into a restaurant, etc…
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Post by katiescarlett on Jan 7, 2024 6:40:52 GMT
1980 something. Concert tickets. 6-7-8 hours? Can't remember the exact time frames, but it was >> get in line in the wee hours and spend half or whole the day in line. Those were the good old days....line neighbors, a boom box, everyone singing along to whatever song was playing on the radio, walking to 7-11 for >> big gulps, snacks and the bathroom. Same. 1983 I think, my friends and I spent the night in line to get front row tickets to an Alabama concert when I was in college. It was so fun! Now, we won't wait 30 minutes to eat in a restaurant.
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artbabe
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Post by artbabe on Jan 7, 2024 15:52:38 GMT
I waited two hours outside a record store on Record Store Day, waiting for it to open. My boyfriend was very into vinyl. It was fun. It is like the Black Friday for vinyl lovers. We spent all day going from one record store to another.
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bethany102399
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Post by bethany102399 on Jan 7, 2024 17:31:48 GMT
I stood in line for Black Friday sales at Target - maybe 2-3 hrs? - for the ipad on sale. And same for Walmart to get a new iphone when I needed a new one. Now they are all sold online! I've done this too, though no standing. I sat in line at Wal-mart for hours Thanksgiving night (inside) as they were 24 hours back then to buy an Xbox. We were scraping by and they had a deal on it for Black Friday which I had saved up for. We happened to be in sporting goods so the people working pulled down the camping chairs for us. We had tickets and if you had a ticket you got an Xbox. I'll never forget the people clustered around the pallets of motorized kids cars waiting for the person to cut the tape. This was at the end of the isle from where we were. The energy around them was palpable - a fight waiting to happen. They held us back while the employees cut the plastic off the cars and we all watched this tower of cars come down as people went into a frenzy. Once they dispersed then they handed out the Xboxes. I had to fight my way through the crowd of people to try and get to the games which were half way across the store. I was pushing a cart and had to physically keep my hand on the xbox while pushing the cart to keep people from taking it out of my cart. It was madness, and while part of me enjoyed the rush of people, there is another larger part of me that loves sleeping in on black friday and getting deals online.
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Post by Jamie on Jan 8, 2024 14:08:21 GMT
I was in my 30's before I saw my first concert, Alabama. But even then it was at one of the local casino amphitheaters. We just ordered tickets on the Casino's website and were done within 10 minutes I'd say.
Longest I would say we ever stood in line was maybe 30-45 min on Black Friday and even then it wasn't for anything in particular, just to get in. Hubby and I used to go just for the fun of it but haven't done that in years. We won't wait for much of anything now. There's times we will walk into Target to find they only have the self check out and maybe 2-3 other lines open and the checkout line is halfway down the main isle. If we really need something we get it and check out in electronics otherwise we will walk out. Same with restaurants. If it's more than 20-30 min we'll just go find someplace else to go.
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Post by hopechest on Jan 8, 2024 17:45:27 GMT
I’m Gen X! Waiting overnight for concert tickets was almost as much fun as going to the concert! Those were the days when you could actually get front row tickets (I had row 3 for Duran Duran and row 9 for Micheal Jackson). Same here!! I've slept on the sidewalk for U2 and REM back in the day.
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Post by ~summer~ on Jan 8, 2024 18:23:54 GMT
Probably long lines at Disneyland
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