Slow Time in Wrist Watch on Dry Leaf (Photo credit: epSos.de)
Wednesday shows up faster and faster each week. It is quite amazing how that happens. Here we are mid-week and it seems like we just left the weekend. I heard tell by some old folks one time that as you get older time moves faster. I suppose that is true when I think about being a kid waiting for baseball season to start. It looked to me as if it would never get underway when I was growing up.. As an old fart I turn around and the World Series is almost over in what appeared to be a blink of an eye from spring practice. That’s how it goes I guess. Given this train of thought I decided to list some the things that move fast in life and those that move slow. This list is very subjective and I wouldn’t mind if you wanted to take exception to what I perceive to be the timing of these events. Also you may have some of your own so feel free to use the comments section for those. Don’t forget the blog is called Fiction Favorites so don’t be afraid to make things up. I do it all the time.
Here is the list of fast and slow time movers:
- Waiting in the rain for a bus, taxi, or car pool ride and you are wearing wool. – Slow Time mover
- Preparing for an agent pitch that begins in a half hour and you had four days to work on – Fast Time mover
- The time between the last anniversary, birthday, or mother’s day that you forgot and the next – Fast Time mover
- The time that the seatbelt light goes off on a flight after you realize the BIG GULP you had with lunch needs to go somewhere. – Slow Time mover
- The pay raise that you were promised shows up in your check – Slow Time mover
- The extra taxes that you have taken out of your check – Fast Time mover
- Time between in law visits – Fast Time mover
- The amount of time on the meter where you parked your car – Fast Time mover
- The time it takes to get a table after you have been seated in the bar – Slow Time mover
- The time it takes to check out of the supermarket in the ten items or less lane – Slow Time mover
- April 15th (Tax day in the US) – Fast time mover
- The time spent in the doctor’s office after your appointment time. – Slow Time mover.
- The amount of time left for your team to catch up from behind. – Fast Time mover
- The amount of time the opponent’s team has to catch up from behind – Slow Time mover
- The time between when your airplane takes off after a delay and the time the pilot said you were going to take off after the delay – Slow Time mover
- The time between the notification by HR that your bosses boss wants to see you and the time your boss comes into you cube. – Fast Time Mover
- The time to lunch when you decided to skip breakfast. – Slow Time mover
- The time to dinner when you had no time for lunch – Slow Time mover.
- The effects of alcohol on your system when you skipped breakfast, lunch, and dinner. –Fast Time mover.
- The trip to Disney World with three kids from the time you leave home until you get there. (hint: “are we there yet?”) – Slowest Time mover
Well you get the idea. Happy Hump Day Y’all.
Fiction Favorites 
With you on the bar to table continuum
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Thanks for staying with me.
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Hic!
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It seems that when you are truly engaged in something, the time does fly.
My favorite time quote by anonymous frog, “Time’s fun when you’re having flies.”
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Loved this. Thanks
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Wednesday never comes soon enough for me.
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I can see your point. Monday is usually the pits. Tuesday not much better. Thursday…ahhhh may make it.
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Great list. One I can think of:
Waiting for the school bus- Fast if you’re not ready, slow if you are ready.
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Good one. I remember rushing out of the house to throw myself in front of the bus while the little one brushes teeth.
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My son is the first one on the bus route too. The plus side is that it’s rarely late. Downside is that we need a flashlight to get to it.
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Fall back should help (lighter earlier)
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Can’t wait for it. Hope the little guy sleeps in.
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I have two dogs and there is no way 😦
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Ouch. Can’t buy them watches?
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Time it takes from writing a book to actually holding it in your hand…really slow time mover.
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Tell me. I signed a contract in March and still no publish date.
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Oh, you never fail to entertain me!
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I will count that as a good thing. Thanks
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Time is a relative concept– I have always believed that. Your post proves it!
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So true about relative. Thanks for the visit.
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The snooze time after pressing the alarm’s snooze button – fast time no matter how many times you press the button:P
Ellespeth
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Good one. Thank you.
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The time from winter to spring in Minnesota……..slooooooowwwww time mover. Don’t get me wrong, I love winter. Just not from October to May!!!
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Used to live in South Bend IN. Slooooooowwwww everything. Thanks for the comment.
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Haven’t done the Disney one yet. I will say this: time from when the kids start being fun until they suddenly seem like full, actual humans: REALLY fast time mover. Where did my little baby go?!
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Amen. My youngest is 24. Hard to believe.
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