Luckily what I think doesn't become real

[dreaminghope]

If I'm to meet someone somewhere and they are five minutes late, I start considering the things that may have delayed them: a late bus, a misplaced house key, a slow watch, a random sighting of a pink rabbit.

If they are ten minutes late: some bad traffic, a last minute phone call, an encounter with a talking pink rabbit.

If they are fifteen minutes late, I start to worry: maybe there's been a car accident, or they came down with a sudden and severe illness, or maybe the pink rabbit turned out to be homicidal.

By the time someone is twenty minutes late, I've begun rehearsing the speech I will give at their funeral.

It's dangerous to leave me alone with too much time to think. That is, unless you would like to know what I would say at your memorial.

Comments

[mystic-savage.livejournal.com]

Wow. If someone is 5 minutes late to meet me, I consider the things that may have delayed them. At 10 minutes, I wonder if they've forgotten the appointment. At 15 minutes, I'm convinced that they not only remembered and just blew it off, but that they really never cared about me in the first place. And of course, by 20 minutes, I've begun rehearsing how I am going to be the cause of their funeral. YMMV.

[dreamhope.livejournal.com]

Fantastic!

Well, I so have a lot of friends and family members who tend to run late, so I have more patience and make more excuses than some would.

In the interest of greater honesty: I do get pretty annoyed by the fifteen or twenty minute mark, but than I feel guilty - what if something really bad had happened? - so I hide my annoyance under a recitation of all the bad things that could have happened.

Also: I love your icon!

[firerainchild.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness... I thought I was the only wacko who did that!!!

Don't leave me alone for too long... I end up curled up crying my eyes out... (I'm really not that weird...)

: )

[dreamhope.livejournal.com]

I'm capable of getting myself very worked up and emotional over the fictional car accidents and funerals. I have teared up on the street.

I'm not really that weird... really.

[firerainchild.livejournal.com]

: ) you are kindred.

[gunthera1.livejournal.com]

*blushes* I do that too. My boss is normally at work by 8:30am at the latest. When it was 9:10 this morning, with no sign of him, and no email or phone calls I started to massively panic. I was sure that something went terribly wrong with his heart and that I just lost my boss. I get very paranoid....

It turns out that he had slept in. *head desk*

[particle-man6.livejournal.com]

Yikes, it must suck living in Vancouver. Most of the people I know here tend to be late for whatever. Took me a while to get used to it.

The only time I get worried now is if it is a date and I do the "did I just get stood up" self-torture.

In general I've learned to bring a book to read. :)

[awehla.livejournal.com]

Some people I know they are going to be late so I don't worry. If it's someone who is reliable and they are running late then I worry. I tend to worry more about David and if he gets home later than he said.

To be honest though I'm so self centered I just think they are late because I don't matter enough or some crap like that.

Lisa
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