Longest minutes
Waiting for water to boil when you’re carved out and cranky with hunger, for your (is it maxed-out? Do I have any cash? Oh, god, am I going to have to put everything back?) credit card to be approved at the check-out, for the doctor with nothing but car magazines & supermarket flyers for reading material, for the uninspired sermon to end, for your plane to board, for your parents to wake up on Christmas morning when you’re six, day three and he still hasn’t called …
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- For the doctor to call back with test results. Waiting for everyone to be done eating the birthday cake so you can open your presents. To get the call from the dog rescue organization regarding if you get the dog you want to adopt today and after that, finding out from the vet if the animal is medically okay
— martina Jun 5, 3:06pm # - waiting for that call to come after the second interview for the job you really, really want…
— roggey Jun 5, 3:29pm # - ...when your friend, the one who talks non-stop, doesn’t even pause for air, filling a good 2 hours with the sound of her own staccato vocalizing, in the process stringing one unrelated topic to another, while you sit mutely having given up on edging a word in, after politely returning the gesture, “I’m fine, how are you?”... (never, NEVER ask this question of her unless you’re interesting in hearing the equivalent of the entire Ring Cycle in a sitting; a.k.a. Long Day’s Journey Into Night.) (Apparently Glen Gould was like this – people would fall asleep while he was talking to them on the phone, wake up 2 hours later and he wouldn’t even know that they hadn’t been…um…present. I’ll have to try that!!)
— sue Jun 6, 4:36am # - .........................and now the blink of an eye moments?
— tongue in cheek Jun 6, 9:37am # - ... for that first “5-in-1 dishwasher tablets” result ?
— Raf Jun 6, 1:37pm # - Waiting for totality in a solar eclipse. July 11, 1991.
— Margaret Jun 6, 5:45pm # - ...for the person you’ve developed a crush on to realise that you’re the perfect one for him; for the moments prior to seeing someone you don’t think you want to see, due to an inappropriate social mishap the previous time; for the vocabulary chip to unmangle itself when left alone for moments with the object of your desire…
...hmm. ANd other stuff I’m sure.
...for the obsession to COMPLETELY take over…
— Naomi Jun 7, 12:40pm # - Waiting to see the emergency room doctor. Waiting for the morphine to kick in. Waiting for a nurse to answer the call button. I’m better now, thanks.
— wizmo Jun 7, 3:39pm # - The longest moment in history, at least in my world, was when my dill-pickle-loving ex-wife, when asked at Thanksgiving dinner if she would like a pickle, said, “I’m a dildo….”
— Stuart Vail Jun 8, 4:54pm # - when you’re put on hold while the Italian visa officer at the questura checks to see whether your residency permit’s been approved. waiting for your mother to ask you how your boyfriend is. time spent in any immigration queue (when you have a Pakistani passport). and—always—that hold-your-breath eternity, before every first kiss.
— nightingaleshiraz Jun 15, 7:13pm # - The moment you realize that you’ve ridden your bike into 4 lanes of rush hour traffic and you are going too fast to stop and you know that stopping wouldn’t help and your life really does flash before your eyes as writers have been saying forever and your life flashing before your eyes is so profoundly depressing that you think “I shouldn’t go on living no matter what” and you’re trying to think of reasons to go on living.
It’s the life flashing before your eyes that really does kill you. Not the car or the bullet or the bear charging for you. It’s your life.
— john guzlowski Jun 23, 2:48pm #
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