{"id":212,"date":"2008-04-20T00:45:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T14:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seawind-network.com\/20080420\/waiting"},"modified":"2008-04-20T00:45:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-19T14:45:01","slug":"waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/20080420\/waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We just spent over 1 1\/2 hours waiting for our dinner to be served in a posh restaurant in Sydney. The table next to ours simply walked-out as they could not wait anymore. When our order did arrive – one dish was so salty – we sent it back. The manager apologised and explained that they were short of one chef. Fortunately for them, we were desperately trying to keep our spirits up, not wanting our family time to turn sour. We were celebrating the last few days that Jessica is 18.<\/p>\n

Which lead me to the question : Have you ever considered how much time is spent waiting? A great deal of our day are spent waiting – I’ll start a list:<\/p>\n

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  1. For the lights to turn Green<\/li>\n
  2. For your turn at the bowser<\/li>\n
  3. For people to turn up in a meeting<\/li>\n
  4. For your computer to boot<\/li>\n
  5. For a web page to load<\/li>\n
  6. To be served in a restaurant<\/li>\n
  7. At a supermarket checkout<\/li>\n
  8. At a bank teller<\/li>\n
  9. At an automatic teller<\/li>\n
  10. For the bus\/taxi\/plane\/train\/ferry or jeep\/tricycle\/3-wheeler<\/li>\n
  11. For your turn in the toilet\/shower<\/li>\n
  12. For someone to stop talking so that you can put in a word or two<\/li>\n
  13. For water to boil or coffee to drip<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We just spent over 1 1\/2 hours waiting for our dinner to be served in a posh restaurant in Sydney. The table next to ours simply walked-out as they could not wait anymore. When our order did arrive – one dish was so salty – we sent it back. The manager apologised and explained that… Read More ›<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sydney-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rommelpascual.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}