If I had just stood there waiting, I would have left after two minutes.

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Yet there I stood in a local GameStop store waiting for my wife to pay for the Nexus 7.

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In the meantime, as I sit in front of this screen, I feel a lot like I did when I stood in front of that hotel waiting for a shuttle to take me to an unknown location.

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As we stood at Al Geneina airport waiting to leave a week later I was told just a couple of miles away an armed UNAMID peacekeeping patrol had been ambushed the day before by 60 armed men on horse back.

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As things turned out, it was a pretty monotonous evening, and I was regretting my mistake long before Arthur came into the lounge bar and stood waiting for someone to serve him.

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