You know how they say,
“It’ll be worth the wait”?
Spoiler alert… it’s usually not.
The other day, I had to “take a sales call.”
You know… THAT moment when the second cup of coffee and your kinda-sorta spicy lunch decide to tag team you.
So off I go.
Phew… made it in time.
But dang… forgot my phone.
So there I sit.
Like a Neanderthal.
Nothing to read. Nothing to do.
Just me and my thoughts.
And sometimes… that’s not a good thing either.
In our house, the bathroom has no reading material.
No magazines. No distractions. No mercy.
It’s 2026… and apparently we’re not allowed to be alone with our own brain anymore.
What happened to us?
Now if we have even 30 seconds of nothingness, we panic-grab our phones like it’s oxygen.
Remember when we used to just… wait?
What was that… 2010?
Earlier?
I don’t even know.
Doctor’s office? Magazines.
Golf Digest.
Popular Mechanics.
(Do those even still exist?)
Drive-thru line?
The radio was your lifeline.
And here’s one…
Waiting 70–90 minutes for a ride at Disney.
OH. MY. GOD.
How did parents survive that?
Standing in the heat…
with kids who are somehow both bored AND overstimulated…
with absolutely nothing to distract them.
Those lines are brutal.
Don’t get me wrong—I love my girls.
LOVE LOVE LOVE.
But entertaining them for 90 minutes?
I know what you’re thinking:
“But Jim… you’re hilarious. Surely your daughters could listen to you for HOURS.”
Trust me…
They cannot.
Same goes for waiting for a table at a restaurant.
You can only read the menu so many times before you start pretending you might order something different.
Now?
We just grab our phone, open an app, and scroll.
And if the wait takes longer?
No biggie.
In fact… some people—NOT ME—are actually happy about it.
More time to scroll. More time to be “engaged.”
Yeah… there was something kinda great about being bored.
Just sitting there with your thoughts.
But then again…
Have you met my thoughts?
Yeah—no thanks.
Phone. Every time.
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