Learning To Wait

One of our most disagreeable everyday experiences is waiting. Watch motorists stopped at a traffic light and count the smiling faces. There aren’t many. We grow weary just thinking about the long lines at the supermarket checkout counter or waiting-rooms where we sit wondering how soon the doctor or dentist will see us. Then there are the friends who are always late. We agree on a time and place to meet knowing in advance that we will be waiting on the corner or in the lobby for a long time. Usually, our late friends aren’t inconsiderate-just pre-occupied (or so they say). They may be like the absent-minded professor who was walking down the street and stopped to chat with a…