Refers to da act of just ploppin' yer weary tush flat on da floor while waiting in line --- da "best of both worlds" advantage of doing so is dat you get to both rest yer weary/achy legs, but don't "give up yer slot" by going to sit in those temptingly-comfy-'n'-cushioned waiting-area chairs which would indeed make for a more-palatable thumbs-twiddling period, but would also oblige you to risk having a subsequent service-seeker "snag yer slot" in da checkout-counter queue.
I hate to be viewed as a "line-jumper" by asking a newly-arrived customer to let me cut into da line in front of him "because that was my spot before you came", so I employ da "sit-down solution" --- or even da LIE-DOWN solution, if either I'm exhausted enough or it looks like I'm "gonna be there a while" --- if da floor is fairly clean; da only problem is dat whenever I finally do decide to "take a load off" after standing motionless for quite a while, "Murphy's Law of sitting down" often kicks in, in dat da previously-stagnant line will almost immediately begin moving forward again. and then I'll hafta hastily perform da "up. periscope!" maneuver just moments after I'd just got comfortably settled on da floor! :P
by QuacksO January 21, 2026
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