In 2016, customers at a grilled-corn stall on Nguyễn Kim Street in Ho Chi Minh City’s District 10 waited between thirty minutes and an hour. VietNamNet reported that the husband-and-wife team lit their charcoal at 7:30 p.m. and sold only 100 ears a day. Corn cooked slowly, demand grew, and two people could not simply add more grills. Regular customers began calling the stall “Bắp Chờ”—Waiting Corn—and the nickname became its sign. The stall also improvised an ordering system from a booklet of parking slips. Customers wrote down their names and quantities, then waited until the seller called them to collect and pay. A physical line was no longer required at every moment because names and numbers preserved the sequence. Here, waiting did more than advertise popularity: it created both the business’s name and its low-tech virtual queue.