Some Guy ([info]jesus_jeff) wrote,
@ 2008-03-25 17:43:00
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for the want of a minute...
ever have one of those days when you would have saved yourself a whole lot of trouble if you'd left just 5 minutes earlier?? :/

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[info]_earthshine_
2008-03-26 03:19 pm UTC (link)
I definitely experience this in various forms on a regular basis. I call them "timing gates", and the best example is in the old days, where for want of 10 seconds or not having a quarter ready for the turnstile, you'd watch the ferry loading door close in your face and have to wait 20 minutes.

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[info]jesus_jeff
2008-03-26 05:30 pm UTC (link)
My case is similar but not exactly the same. Think 'Office Space'. I was thinking of cutting out a few minutes early and just before I was about to leave someone stopped by with a "I just broke this can you fix it?" problem that was going to take me an hour or so to fix (largely because I last worked on it several months ago and I don't remember all the little quirks that make it do the right or wrong thing)... and I was (and am) taking off the next day ... and it wasn't something that could be broken for a few days. If I'd just left before she stopped by I would've been off the hook. Oh well, I fixed it last night after the kiddieos fell asleep, and all is well again.

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[info]_earthshine_
2008-03-26 07:28 pm UTC (link)
Sure... far less predictable in your case, but then again so are mine: i get to the intersection 5 seconds too late and have to wait for the traffic that's now streaming out of the light, which sets me back 2 minutes. Not as dramatic and example, i suppose, but you get the point.

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