College is supposed to prepare you for the real world, but if that's the case, they should have a class on standing in line. The post office line. DMV line. Grocery store line. Unless Shakespeare's clever wordplay can help me cut in front of that mom and screaming baby at the market, he's of no use to me.

The speaker uses comic exaggeration to question the promise that college “prepares you for the real world.” By proposing a class on “standing in line,” she highlights how much adult life is shaped by mundane, bureaucratic waiting—post office, DMV, grocery store—rather than by the lofty intellectual skills often associated with higher education. The jab at Shakespeare’s “clever wordplay” isn’t really anti-literature so much as a critique of misaligned expectations: cultural capital and academic knowledge can feel powerless against everyday frustrations and social constraints. The humor depends on the tension between high culture (Shakespeare) and low, practical irritations (queues), suggesting a desire for education that acknowledges ordinary lived experience.