IMPOSSIBLE-TO-OBEY quantum instructions continue to flood in, like this one seen by Richard Lambley at a Yates’s Wine Lodge: “Please order your food from all till points”. Martin Wakefield, however, is the first to report mounting a challenge to such confusing commands. On observing the notice in the booking office at Bishop’s Lydeard station on the West Somerset Railway that exhorted him to “Use both windows”, he asked whether he should do this consecutively or simultaneously.
“The sign is addressed to the queue,” he was told, leaving him wondering why the discovery of the queue as a sentient life form has not received more…
