Waiting...

So here I am for the day. Locked into waiting for a repairman who will grace me with his presence and expertise sometime between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm. Wow. Way to narrow it down, buddy. But it got me to thinking, what if everything ran like this?

I met my husband at a 4:00 pm doctor's appointment yesterday. He was running late so I signed him in (it was his appt.). Lucky thing, too. We waited in the waiting room until 4:50, then we went through the normal barrage of weights and measurements and waited in the lab "holding pen" for another 10 minutes. Finally, we were escorted to an exam room where we waited another 30 minutes. At which point, my husband says "we won't get out of here until around 6:00pm". I thought he was being a little melodramatic, but in actuality, he did not underestimate at all. It was approx. 5:55pm when we went to "check out". There was only one lone woman in the office area where earlier it had been teeming with workers.

So, why is it we have to make appointments if they aren't honored. Why can't we just show up between 8:00 and 5:00 to the doctor's office? Wouldn't that be better than waiting around in uncomfortable, albeit germ-covered, furniture?

Or maybe it does work like that and the doctor is just showing up between 8 and 5 whenever it pleases him/her. That could be why we all have to wait.

So what is it that I can make people wait for? What if I told a company I'd pay them sometime in the month? Oh wait, I do that. Ok, how bout if I told them I was going to bring them the payment but they had to wait for me all day? No, I do that to.

Alright, so you've guessed that I don't have an answer for this very annoying, if not earth-shattering, world-changing, dilemma. Let me know if you have a solution.