Would You Pay Someone To Wait in Line for You

**SPEAKER_1** (0:00)
So, Nigel, people are paying people to stand in line so they can take part in viral food trends without waiting.

**Nigel** (0:09)
So, you're standing in line for waiting at a restaurant, basically.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:12)
Right.

**Nigel** (0:13)
And you're getting paid?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:14)
Here is a professional line stander talking about this little way to make some side cash.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:23)
People think that standing on line is very simple, and it is.
We'll say more line dudes, we're line sitters. We stand in line for you, professional line standers, we're going to come on. I can earn $2,000 to $3,000 a week just standing in line.
When we're in these long hour waits, we're on our phones, we do our crossword puzzles. It's very simple.

**SPEAKER_1** (0:46)
Guys, I gotta go stand in the line.

**Nigel** (0:49)
Two to three thousand dollars a week for standing in line for somebody, waiting to get a seat at a restaurant?

**SPEAKER_1** (0:56)
I do that here trying to get to the bathroom.
And you're telling me I can make a couple extra grand doing that? Man.

**Nigel** (1:04)
Yeah. How rich and frivolous do you have to be just to throw around money to pay somebody to stand in line?

**SPEAKER_1** (1:13)
So maybe that class at Arizona State where you can major in becoming an influencer isn't such a thing to be laughed at after all.

**Nigel** (1:22)
Exactly.

**SPEAKER_1** (1:23)
If you could become an influencer and you've got thousands of dollars to pass out to somebody to just stand in line for you, you got to be doing something right, I would think anyway.

**Nigel** (1:32)
Is there a restaurant where you would pay somebody to stand in line for you if you had the money?

**SPEAKER_1** (1:37)
Like, I don't think so. I've stood in so many lines in my life that I feel like I can just write it out. Like I'm that level of old man, right? Like I've been in line for the Beast. I've stood in line at Disney.
I've waited outside in the cold for the stupid Royal Rumble at Lucas Oil Stadium to open. That's right. Which was like 25 minutes late. We were freezing our asses off outside.

**Nigel** (2:02)
I remember that.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:03)
And that line wrapped around the corner because there was only one place you could go in. I could probably just wait it out. What about you?

**Nigel** (2:10)
Two words, fast pass. We saved our pennies and did things the right way when you go to Disney World and Universal.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:18)
Was it fast pass, though? Did it get you right to the front? Yes.

**Nigel** (2:21)
I mean, I never had like we were waiting for I know we're up against it here. We waited for maybe 20 minutes for Tron at night, at which was another kick ass roller coaster at Disney right next to Space Mountain.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:34)
OK.

**Nigel** (2:35)
And it got us right on.

**SPEAKER_1** (2:36)
I mean, fast pass was worth it.

**Nigel** (2:37)
Worth it. Totally. Absolutely worth it. Got to save your pennies, though.