The Waiting Game
Reader's Digest Canada|September 2018

What I was really doing when I texted, “Be there in five!”

Sophie Kohn
The Waiting Game

AH,YES! The classic text message that reads, “There in five!” We’ve all sent it, and apparently it has a magical ability to turn us so violently optimistic that we believe we can defy the laws of space and time.

It’s time for me to come clean: here is a list of recent times I texted a friend that I was five minutes away, and the honest truth of my longitude and latitude.

1 I slept through my alarm, woke up an hour after the workday had started and still had to shower, get dressed, eat breakfast and begin my 45-minute highway commute. “Should be there in five minutes!” I texted you. I arrived at 2:38 p.m.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 2018 من Reader's Digest Canada.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 2018 من Reader's Digest Canada.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.