Did ants learn from them, or they did from ants... The queue in front of the American embassy! Well, this is one sight which must not have gone unnoticed. There used to be a period when the queue in front of the American embassy would stretch close to a kilometer. Let me clearly describe the embassy queues.

Everyone with the almost the same kind of expression! That anticipation, that anxiety!

Clutching a bag with necessary document and checking for the presence of the mandatory documents. And you can often see that there is a same cribbing from people. Alas, what do I see, there is tea hawker selling tea to the tried people.

More often, such queues of the American embassy are depicted well in the movies. The movie Kalki directed by Mr. Balachander has this funny scene, the lead protagonist kalki, in an attempt to gain little extra money sleeps over night in the embassy queue and sells her seat to an old man who possibly cannot have stood in the queue for hours.

Recently the queue is getting shorter. In Tamil, they say mousse (the popularity) for America has definitely gone down. For what are these people heading towards the alien nation. I keep wondering what that country offers which we lack. Definitely now India is shinning high. A mathematic equation can clearly explain the strength of the queue. The length of queue is directly proportional to the dollar value.

One review in mouth shut .com reads so, �just be there at the office 10 minutes ahead of your appointment and don�t ever take the queue over there. Just show your appointment to the guard and get in. I was actually deceived by the queue, thinking that queue will help the processing faster. Don�t mind the people, even if they ask you to stand in a queue.�

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