kept picking the slow queue

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first stop was at the atm. there were two side by side with two people each, one transacting, one waiting. i chose the one on the right. when the one who was waiting before i got there was finally doing his own transaction, i noticed it was taking forever. seems like he was withdrawing several amounts, insert card, punch keys, get money, insert card again. i moved to the left and when he finally finished, so did i. at the houseware section of the mall, i kept walking to find a cashier that had the shortest line. i was probably the fifth and i remember standing behind a male. somehow, when it was almost my turn, it became a woman. and she had numerous stuff to be scanned, big and small. she also had several people with her and they would discuss if they would buy this or that item or not. i gave up and left when i saw that there was also a wheeled trolley of several boxes of appliances to be scanned! it's like they're buying stuff for an empty house. most likely it will be charged to a credit card and that would take time, too. at the fastfood store, i lined up at a short line, hoping the ones before me would just be buying food for themselves, not for a table of family members. when it was almost my turn, the female before me was asking her friends, who already saved a table, more questions about their orders and the order-taker/cashier kept offering more options, so there was a lot of back and forth. thankfully, i learned that when it comes to the restrooms, it's better to go to the ones on the top/higher floors. there are less people there. are you good at picking out the short, fast lines? i guess suffering at a slow line is better than wasting time at the wrong line! are people disciplined when lining up where you are?