STANDING IN LINE
Do you like to wait in line to buy tickets for a rock concert, to get a table at your favorite restaurant, or even to pay for things at the supermarket? Most people hate it. They know that standing in line is necessary but they feel it is boring and a waste of time. However, many of them don't know that they can hire somebody to stand in line for them.(lines 1–7)
People who stand in line instead of other people are professional line-standers. Line-standers are especially popular in big cities because lines there are often very long. People who want to buy tickets for an event such as a popular show or an important football game, for example, have to stand in line for many hours. They often start to stand in line hours before the ticket office opens because they want to make sure that they get tickets. People who want to save time pay a line-stander to buy the tickets for them. If the line is for a table at a restaurant, the line-standers call the people who hired them when the table is available. Today, you can often get tickets and other services on the internet but sometimes there is a long wait even there. Line-standers will wait on the internet instead of you as well.(lines 8–17)
A successful line-stander needs certain qualities. If you want to be a line-stander, you must be someone that people can trust. Of course, you also have to be patient because you may have to wait for a very long time. Being a line-stander is an excellent job for students who only want to work a few hours a week. It can also be a good job for people who are willing to spend many hours every day waiting in lines. There are companies on the internet that offer jobs for line-standers.(lines 18–22)