The spat106 short longform #33

Impatience

Recently the decision that Winston Peters was in charge of deciding was decided. He had the option of forming a government with either National or Labour (with support of the Greens). He went for the Labour option, an option that women have to go through when they are experiencing childbirth. The negotiating process NZ First went through was 26 days after the general election and a week & a half after the final results of the election were found out. Some people during this stage found it an unnecessarily lengthy process and thought that the decision was never going to be come along. It was like a case of the year is 2050, New Zealand is now fully rodent-free but the government has still yet to be formed from the results of the 2017 election. This ended up not being the case but it did illustrate the idea of people being impatient about something, as people were wanting a government to be formed straight after the election, so much so that they suggested that the electoral system be changed so any lengthy negotiations like this one would be avoided on the future. A change in the electoral system comes with its own set of problems so that will be discussed by me on another occasion. And by another occasion I mean hopefully I will never have to discuss it or you’ll forget that I was meant to discuss it.

Just a word of advice, more like phrase of advice, being impatient for the result of an election is not be be confused as being impotent, which is failing to get a result of an erection.

Some other examples of being impatient for something when you really want something are the following:

Without having to say it but obviously saying it, is when you have drunk a lot of water and then you’re in the car in a middle of a motorway, You are desperate to go to the toilet but you’re stuck in gridlock, you’d even travel over the speed limit just to get the your house or work or whatever place has a toilet. That is a warranted impatience, although if you hold it in for too long that can probably lead to impotence as well.

When you order a pizza and it’s meant to be at your place of residence or work or whatever the place you want to consume pizza at, obviously not the place where the pizza is being made because the hint is that you are wanting it to be delivered, it’s meant to be delivered in 20 minutes and then the person comes along with your pizza 21 minutes after your order. That may be a only a minute late but imagine with that minute you could have eaten a pizza a minute earlier than you currently have the opportunity to do so. The pizza delivery person is denying you a minute’s pleasure in life and that is very selfish of them. They should only earn their crust if they get your crust to you quicker.

Another one is you arrive at your doctors for the GP appointment at the scheduled time but then are waiting in the waiting room for another 10 to 15 minutes after the scheduled appointment time, I know it’s called the waiting time for a reason but doctors are surely taking the piss there. With that extra 15 minutes of waiting you could have watched a 10 minute YouTube video of how to cure yourself and the other 5 minutes applying what you have learnt on the video to yourself. You’ll be so good at being a doctor that your GP will come to you for a future appointment and when they arrive at scheduled time you make them wait for 15 minutes. But then they’ll watch a 10 minute YouTube video and spend 5 minutes applying those lessons to themselves. Then it becomes a loop of going to each others for an appointments while solving your own issue in the waiting room.