Problem #WSP - 000033

Problem

There are infinitely many couples at a party. Each pair is separated to form two queues of people, where each person is standing next to their partner. Suppose the queue on the left has the property that every nonempty collection of people has a person (from the collection) standing in front of everyone else from that collection. A jester comes into the room and joins the right queue at the back after the two queues are formed.

Each person in the right queue would like to shake hand with a person in the left queue. However, no two of them would like to shake hand with the same person in the left queue. If $p$ is standing behind $q$ in the right queue, $p$ will only shake hand with someone standing behind $q$’s handshake partner. Show that it is impossible to shake hands without leaving out someone from the left queue.