Applications of Queueing Analysis Outside of Networking

• Checkout line in a supermarket.

• Waiting for a teller in a bank.

• Batch jobs waiting to be processed by the CPU.

• ``That's the way the whole thing started,
  Silly but it's true,
  Thinking of a sweet romance
  Beginning in a queue."
  

  --G. Gouldman, ``Bus Stop," The Hollies