She had to wait an hour by a pay phone to find someone who wanted to use it, and in his case, it was an emergency call.
The lack of redress also means that smaller grievances - like having to wait an hour at the end of the day to clock off - can suddenly boil over into violence.
You have to wait half an hour for that revelation, and it's too late.
Recalling a trip with American colleagues to Singapore a decade ago, Zhu says he was stopped and asked to wait for an hour at customs while his American colleagues were given a quick OK to pass through.
After what seemed like an unending wait of more than an hour, they cheered again when the doors to the loggia opened.
And yet I often wait for half an hour at peak times cursing taxi cab service in San Francisco.
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At Euston and King's Cross stations, train passengers had to wait on average an extra hour.
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In March, more than 300 ambulances had to wait more than half an hour before delivering their patients to hospital staff.
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The average wait time is about an hour, but for shows like Once, plan on arriving three to four hours in advance.
Just 20 trucks can fit in the loading bay and they can wait for more than an hour to be unloaded, largely by hand.
Though some county voters have had to wait as long as an hour, "most don't mind waiting, as long as the process is going well, " he said.
They keep half of their seats open for walk-ins, but even so there is often an hour wait -- just the right amount of time to have a few apertifs and spark mischief.
Although the Europeans seemed prepared to wait, we reluctantly returned to our car after an hour, and cut back through the peninsula, with a herd of guanacos scampering ahead of us on the road.
The chair of the health committee has described an elderly man's 21-hour wait for a bed at the Royal Victoria Hospital as "disgraceful".
She shows up, in full makeup, at the designated location at least half an hour early and is fully prepared to wait (and wait) for her moment to be a face in a very big crowd.
Once Stateside, the pair confirmed their low-carb-craze hunch by visiting a store, an hour from Modesto, where people were willing to wait in line 15 minutes and more to check out.
He arrives at the airport an hour before the flight just like everyone else and travels with DVDs to wait out the seemingly inevitable delay.
The discussion about Mr Mitchell lasted about half an hour - leaving Chancellor George Osborne, who was the main speaker, to wait outside in corridor.
"(The SyFy show) is only on for an hour a week and 13 episodes a season, and then people have to wait for the next season, " Hill points out.
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