That's a weird, thoroughly unempathic - not to use the word sociopathic - take. A queue in front of a phone box means everyone thinks the other ones are out of order. The large majority of the time, the phones will indeed be thoroughly out of order, and the majority of the rest of the time, people don't think they have the skills to make them work again. Not taking your place in the queue means you may well lose a spot or two as you try to figure it out. It's totally rational to queue, so a very poor experiment.

And I'm curious enough to have patents.