1.15.10 rank

The weather cleared enough to catch a train back to Cambridge. But I arrived to find the taxi rank collectively disobeying queue etiquette - with both passengers and drivers ignoring posted rules.

Clearly this is not acceptable; in the UK you could even state without exaggeration that it is a shocking breach of protocol.

Too many tourists, not enough Brits? Who cares. I schooled them all with ruthless efficiency.

I put one finger in the air and started issuing orders - You are next, you need to go to the back of the queue - the queue forms here!

One or two drivers looked mutinous but they obeyed my beckoning finger.

People are so susceptible to unearned authority.

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