10 things that take forever

I have just spent three hours making a salad for dinner tonight. Okay it wasn’t exactly three hours but it certainly felt like it. And it’s not because it was a super sophisticated salad – in fact it is really very basic. And it’s not like I ever had to make the dressing, that was done before (talking of which you should make this dressing – it’s brilliant). It’s just that making a salad seems to take sooo long.

Perhaps it’s the tedium of washing lettuce and chopping vegetables that seems to stretch minutes into hours. Maybe it’s the fact that it’s just part of a boring mid-week meal and I’m not that enthused… But it did get me thinking that there are quite a few things that I commonly do that seem to take forever

1. Making school lunch – seriously this cannot take more than five minutes if I stretch it so why do I dread it with the some dread that most people hold for taking out the rubbish? School lunch takes me about three days in imagined time
2. Putting petrol in the car – this is something I’ve been know to put off because it feels like such a waste of time. Getting stuck on the other hand, would be a bigger waste of time. Putting petrol in takes about 2 hours in imagined time.
3. Finding a parking spot. Even on the busiest day statistics say that you wait for parking an average of 8 minutes, so why does finding a parking spot take over an day in imagined time?
4. Waiting at the cash register when there are magazines to browse through takes about a second. Waiting to get to the front of the queue so that you can get to the magazines takes over an hour.

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5. Ever sent a text and wanted or needed a response immediately? No matter who it is or how long it actually takes it feels like about three days.
6. Getting your hair cut – some people love having their hair scrubbed and rubbed and coiffed and blow dried. Quite frankly I find any activity that requires me to sit in front of the mirror for longer than a nanosecond painful. Having my hair cut takes about eight hours in imagined time. Lets agree never to mention having any sort of colouring done.
7. Waiting for a tradesman to fix something or something to be delivered to your home actually does take a whole day regardless of what they say. In my experience if they tell you between 9 and 12 they will come at 12:15 unless you rely on that equation and are only home from 11:30, then they will come at 8:45.
8. Waiting for your child to finish a meal. Seriously how on earth does time stretch while you are watching your child eat a meal that they don’t love? It often surprises me when I finally walk away from the table and glance at my watch expecting it to be after midnight and it is a little after 7pm.
9. Sitting in the sun. I know that in this day of sun education and melanoma awareness this is not an actual issue but I still remember back to my teenage years when you HAD to have a tan to have any credibility. Lying on my back in the sun for ten minutes would take about a year in imagined time. I always vowed that if I had only one month to live I would spend it lying in the sun thus giving me … well a lot of time (I’m too bad at math to work it out).
10. Waiting for your nails to dry takes forever. The introduction of gel nails has improved the need to stand with outstretched hands for all your days with immediate drying time however, the time your nails will take to recover from being doused in acetone to remove the stuff will literally be forever.

What every day activities do you do that seem to take forever?