Lost Time

maltrab

maltrab

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I bet forum members can think of many more of these lost time moments, time that we can never get back, and over our lifetimes must amount to many hours/ days maybe even weeks,we cannot seem to avoid them

1. Dentist and Doctors appointments
2. Hospital appointments
3. Queuing in supermarkets and other stores to give them money
4. Waiting to fill up in petrol stations
5. Post office
6. Waiting for a service engineer to call at your home
7. Road works and general traffic jams
8. Waiting for a return phone call
9. Waiting for a call centre to answer you
10. Waiting for the last couple of megabyte to download
 
Taking a man on a shopping tour :P. Sometimes this can be a waste of time because you spend hours arguing that you have to go into another shop, and it certainly is a waste of nerves. With few exceptions, there actually are men who would come with you voluntarily. In my experience they hate it even more if they are supposed to go shopping for themselves.
 
I am one of the fortunate ones, my husband does not mind waiting for me while I shop for shoes - my weakness! But then I also wait for him while he shops for guy stuff!
 
Actually I have just realised that there is another waste fo time - going to a shop and finding it does not stock what you want. This seems to happen to me more and more. Often can only get what i want via internet and then have to buy five years worth to avoid paying postal charges.
 
the biggest waste of time for me has to be going shopping for anything with my wife. The real pain though is clothes shopping, she tramps me around ALL the shops, buys things and well you know never ever wears them. she will complain about having nothing to wear, but heaven forbid me reminding her of the new stuff she bought only 2 days ago. well anyway the're all the same.
 
Adding here as people do believe that time waiting to get appointments and attending clinics for appointments can be both stressful and time consuming but I recently attended an appointment with a relative at our main hospital eye department . Sitting there was quite eye opening [sorry no pun intended] , whilst it is quite noisy most of the nurses calling patients in for their treatment did call their names quite clearly but were often ignored and repeated their calls many times before the person stood up and went to meet the nurse to go in for their treatment.

It struck me , as light relief from what can be quite a testing time , would it be possible in this sea of people that there was possibly a Geoff Mutton who would take an inordinate time to get up or indeed needed several calls at different stages before getting up . I shared this thought with my relative who got the irony and started laughing as did three or four people nearby who had heard the remark . I felt quite happy that I had perhaps in that short period of time brought some light relief to those waiting considerable time for their appointment. Next time it'll be Alf Pindrop :)
 
I attend the eye clinic at the main hospital in Lincoln, I always made a 9am first appointment, I see the same nurse each time, she was always 20-30 minutes late starting the clinic, mainly wandering around aimlessly, once inside the clinic nothing was set up, so another 10 minutes lost, so for the rest of the day everybody's appointment is going to be 30-40 minutes late, once she wandered around for some time asking other staff if they had a nail file she could borrow
 
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