**After six months of consultations, a commission recommends scrapping service counters…**
**…and replacing them with chairs on which people wait standing up.**
The decree came down at dawn on Tuesday, printed on a roll of paper so long it had to be unspooled all the way to the Market Square. From now on, queues will be officially designated as national heritage. Each citizen will be able to wait there “with dignity, slowness, and a numbered ticket,” specified the Ministry of Disorganized Organization.
To celebrate this reform, the counters will close for three days so that staff can receive visitors who have come to observe their closure. An inauguration is planned, followed by a queue to access the queue, then a second to collect the form confirming that one has indeed waited.
“We have given people back time: they can now waste it in a recognized setting,” the minister declared, before asking where her ticket was. According to initial estimates, the measure will reduce by 40% the number of procedures completed and increase by 300% the length of conversations about procedures.
The authorities are already considering an ambitious follow-up: turning roundabouts into meeting rooms and entrusting their facilitation to road signs that won’t agree with one another.
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