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Pedestrians walking on a street in Kaohsiung recently came upon a bizarre sight: a long row of odd items, including chopsticks, bottle caps, and even leaves, were lined up neatly along the side of the road. They were there because a nearby monastery was about to hand out free lunchboxes. To avoid waiting in line, seniors used this unique method to hold their spots.

A row of items is neatly lined up along the side of the road. There are cigarette boxes, chopsticks, bottles, even bottle caps, all lined up neatly by the edge line. Passersby weren’t sure what was going on.

- Are these your chopsticks?
- Yeah.
- Have you used them?
- They’re not for eating.

This isn’t litter—they’re placeholders. The funniest was this oven, but there are also lots of straws, and even fallen leaves.

- They’re using these things to keep their place in line. They’re even using leaves.

- Does it work?
- I don’t know. One gust of wind and the leaves will blow away.

These peculiar placeholders stretched on for a few hundred meters, forming a strangely inanimate jockeying for position that left onlookers chuckling. The nearby monastery in Kaohsiung’s Cianjhen District hands out a limited number of free lunchboxes every month. Since these seniors can’t handle standing for that long, they use all kinds of objects to keep their place. But everyone has a tacit agreement: You just have to show up by the 11:30 handout time.

Staff
Monastery
We give out 200 lunchboxes at a time. This is how they line up. In a bit we’ll send out staff to keep things orderly.

Person in line
Used to it
It’s always like this. Those who want to will find something to argue about.

Even though their things do the waiting, when the time comes, everyone has to show up in person. And with the handout happening every month, this quirky placeholder parade is already commonplace.

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