There are two new restaurants in your neighborhood: a Thai restaurant, and a Chinese restaurant. You want to have Thai food but your close friend wants to go to the Chinese restaurant.

a. Based on the optimization behavior of people, what would be the result?

b. What could change your answer to part (a)? If you two are planning to enter a science project competition as a team, and your close friend is really good at science, what is your best strategy?

c. Suppose that both of you decide to eat Chinese food.

When you reach the place you find that all the tables there are empty but there is a very long queue in front of the Thai restaurant. What would you do? What do you call this phenomenon?