The Waitress

Have you ever really looked at how much time we spend just waiting? Think about it for even a few minutes and your brain starts to buzz. It never ends.

We wait to be born for months. Then we get born and we have to wait to get all cleaned up before we get to see our parents.

We wait for the cable TV guy. They can be here between 8 and 5 three weeks from next Tuesday but only if it is a full moon. Okay we will wait. This is after we have been put on ignore by them and wait 45 minutes for them to answer our call.

When we go out to eat we wait for a parking spot, we wait for a table, we wait for the waitress to come back and take our order, we wait for our food. We usually end up waiting for someone to finish their meal or they end up waiting for us. We wait for the waitress to bring us the check. We get tired of waiting so we trip her to get her attention. We feel bad about this so we wait for the ambulance with her.

We wait at traffic lights. You would think they could hire somebody to get the lights in sync so all four directions wouldn't have to wait.

We wait in line at the grocery store. Then we finally make it to the cashier and we have to wait on a price check. We wait for the person to run into the middle of the store trying to find the item. Can't find it so they run back to see the item again. Wait more and try to decide if food is really necessary after all. We just have to wait for it to cook. Runner guy comes back with a price that the cashier rings up wrong. So we wait for the manager to come clear the entry. We wait for them to finish bagging our purchase the wait for the carry-out kid since they don't trust us with their carts.

But wait there is more!

We wait to see the doctor in the waiting room. We wait in the exam room. We wait on the lab to get our test results back to the doctor. We wait for the doctor to call us with these results. Then we have to wait for the pharmacy to get our medication. Lucky us we have to wait 3 hours after eating to take our medicine.

We wait in line at the restroom. If we are lucky we don't have to wait for the only stall that happens to have a woman with 3 kids in there that have to go too. Wait.. why do women have to do this?

I'm starting to get a headache from all this waiting. I'd take some aspirin but I'd just have to wait for them to start working.