I think tonight’s experience at my local shops summaries the efficiency differences between Chinese and Western people:

* Order Chinese food
* Walk into Co-Op (next door) to buy bottle of water. Full of bloody middle aged women (the type that done get the purse out in the queue and then have to dig in the bag to find it) and some woman with mental problems clogging up the queue. As I’m queuing I’m having a tourette’s moment under my breath thinking “Christ, I bet the Chinese food is cooked now and I’m pissing around trying to buy a bottle of watter”
* Finally served, walk in an Chinese food is waiting there for me.