Sitting in a social security office, waiting for your number to be called so you can go and sit at one of the tiny windows to fulfill whatever task you needed to get done, if you brought all the necessary paperwork, is a pain.
It is painfully dull and extremely frustrating, but necessary in some instances.
I had to deal with one such instance recently. The office in my area opens at 9 am, and I arrived exactly at 9, and the entire waiting area was already filled. I had assumed 9 was when they first began letting people in but apparently the doors opened early to allow people to sign in and get their number. Because of this I was number 132, and 101 was just being called when I arrived. No seats were available so I was left standing, and the waiting was made even worse by the air conditioning in the building. For whatever reason they had their air conditioner at full blast in the middle of winter even though it was 32 degrees outside. It was a poor use of their HVAC system; we needed the furnace to be running, not the air conditioning! I was stuck in the frigid waiting area for a little over an hour, and my visit only took 5 minutes once I was called. 5 minutes was all it took to get the paperwork I needed, get it filled out, and leave, but it took over an hour to start! I was so glad to get out of that building, with its ridiculous wait and insane air conditioning, and into my car to head on home.