ZooStuck

Originally posted on MSPA by Dragon Fogel.

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Look impatiently at your watch and huff passive aggressively

An idea strikes you. Perhaps if you seem to be in a hurry, you can convince people to let you move ahead in the line. You look down at your wrist chronometer and...

Oh, drat! You left your wrist chronometer at home! Well, this plan is clearly a failure. Now what are you going to do?

Knock everyone behind you unconscious!

Another idea strikes you! How fortuitous you are with ideas today. You can hold your place in line if nobody behind you is conscious enough to take it. You start punching the inferiors behind you again until they are knocked out. This takes twelve minute-cycles, but it will be worth it to hold your place in line.

> Plug your ears/ whatever you use to smell, then run home to get the package, get to an airlock, and throw it out into space.

A third idea strikes you! You wonder if perhaps you have developed some sort of rapid idea-forming disease, but you will have to consult a medical professional later. Right now, you must act to save your entire civilization.

Having secured your place in line, you quickly cover your ears to block the hideous smell, then rush home and grab the package with your other two arms. The simplest way to dispose of it is to throw it out the airlock, so you rush for the nearest one, knowing minute-cycles are a precious commodity...

What. What is this.

Why on planet-ship is there a lineup outside the airlock?