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Waiting for photos to be developed before seeing them.
Waiting for a movie to be released on video (!) before watching it.
Waiting for the next outing to the shops before buying something.
Waiting for the newspaper to be delivered before reading the news.
Waiting for a friend to call to chat.
Waiting for a letter to arrive to know how someone is.
Waiting for a song to come on the radio to tape it. (I'm sure I spent hours of my childhood doing this!)
Waiting to get home before making a phone call.
Waiting in queues. (At least, without a recorded voice telling you how important you are.)
What else do you remember waiting for?
Waiting for shops to re-open Mondays when they had been closed since Saturday lunchtime.. Till mid 1970s.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for The Catalogues to come from the Department Stores so you could "order" clothes then wait for them to arrive. 197Os
Waiting for what seemed a long four to six weeks before you went to the Dr who sent you to have a blood test who then rang the doctor back some days later about the results for pregnancy but you had to wait to go to the doctors to find out. 1970s
Shall I go on.. And I am TERRIBLE at waiting . Xx
Denyse.... come live out here in the sticks- you can relive the 1970's! Lol- it's sometimes a pain not being able to buy anything on Sunday or Saturday afternoon, but I reckon the people who work at the shops don't see it that way!
ReplyDeleteAnd I so remember the waiting for a song to come on the radio!
Also, waiting for your older siblings to grow out of clothes you loved so that you could wear them! (Some kids might still do that though!)
Loved waiting for the radio to play a song, you would sit there trying to get the whole song with no talking at the start and end, listening to top 40 each week so you knew when your song would be on.
ReplyDeleteFor now I don't seem to have to wait for much more than the train, the traffic, and the kids to finish each meal, which seems to take a while.
growing up in the country had to wait untill 12oclock before there was anything on TV to watch
ReplyDeleteSuch an amazing post... it's really given me food for thought! I never realised how much waiting we used to do. No wonder we felt like life was bit slower. All that waiting and no twitter on our iPhones. Imagine! x
ReplyDeleteOh yes to waiting for songs on the radio! I too spent countless hours doing that.
ReplyDeleteMy Dad used to have a darkroom and it took forever to develop photos in there. It was a great process though, lots of fun and one that my tech savvy kids may never appreciate.
Ah, yes, I spent countless hours waiting for favourite songs to come on the radio so I could hit the old 'record' button.
ReplyDeleteWaiting in a queue for a teller to withdraw money (AND getting my deposit/withdrawal book stamped and written in). We asked for one of these for our daughter recently for her bank account and do you know, they don't have any such thing anymore?! (well, not with our bank anyway) Ludicrous.
Oh yes! I remember waiting for all of those...especially waiting for the song to tape it!
ReplyDeleteOh wow, biggest flashbacks happening right now! It's amazing how much technology has changed the world we live in. EVERYTHING is so immediate and easy, which is great... but there was something pretty cool about the slower pace of the 'good old days' :) xxx
ReplyDeleteWaiting for buses, something I still do.
ReplyDeleteWaiting for Sundays because that was roast chicken day.
Waiting for winter because the fire would be lit and we'd sit around it with mugs of hot milo.
Waiting for the annual beach carnival week.
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ReplyDeleteLay-by!!
ReplyDeleteI think we need to wait more. It's the best thing for us - to wait. It makes things so much more delicious, like slow cooking.
I once read some fantastic advice on raising toddlers and how we can help them learn to be more patient - teach them to wait. Even if only for a few seconds. Go to hand them something then say "wait... wait... wait..." THEN hand it over.
Such a necessity for the human condition.