@snoofle said:
I was first on line. The bus pulls in (early by random chance), and at the requisite time, the driver opens the door. I get on. The person behind me just stands there (apparently waiting for a later bus). The people behind her just stand there, waiting for the person now in front to go. What to do? The driver and I look at each other in puzzlement. Finally, I just wave to the person. Nothing. After 5 minutes of this, the driver closes the door and pulls out, with just me on the bus, and over 100 people blindly standing on the line waiting for the person in the front to go. sigh
In Italy we solved this problem a lot of time ago: you have to simply push away your neighbour.