Imagine the last time you waited impatiently in the hospital emergency room, or emergency care clinic.
If you waited until you could see inflation, so the doctrine went, it was already too late.
By the time you got to the front of the line, what you waited for may have been gone.
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The solution: Combine a bunch of services under one umbrella and, chances are, you get repeat visitors more quickly than if you waited five years for someone to replace a car or home.
But like the Shamu show at Sea World, the place is always jammed -- and when you think about it, the whale doesn't really do all that many tricks considering the time you waited.
If it turns out that the IRS argues you should have waited, you at least have the possibility to take the loss in a later year.
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If you thought there was more out there you could have waited.
However several of you got in touch to say that you too had waited a long time for radiotherapy after breast cancer surgery.
You were not the only one who was surprised when Congress passed the fiscal cliff bill at New Years with an estate tax fix that meant you could have waited.
Sometimes, the Devil was Death, who waited for you at a crossroads or behind some door you had been repeatedly warned against opening.
Certainly, those of you who watched and waited here, in agonies of anxiety over loved ones serving abroad, will have known something of the conflicting emotions that all this involves.
And some of you have stood and waited for a loved one that did not return and live now with the knowledge that your will one day be reunited with him, with our heavenly Father.
So if you were harmed by either of these pension consulting firms and were waiting for the SEC to take action, you may very well have waited too long to recover all your damages.
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You could say we should have waited three years to do interactive TV.
You know, we've waited quite a long time for this.
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When all is said and done, you will have spent several hundred dollars and waited several months (if not years) to get a downloadable version of Final Cut Pro X that vaguely resembles the older software you purchased several years ago.
We waited to share this news with all of you until we had first spoken with the groups impacted.
After claiming our intended purchase, we waited in line. (Have you ever seen two boys, ages seven and nine, wait in a line?) Not without a penchant for distraction myself, I wandered momentarily out of the cue and asked the boys to stay in line.
In the interest of full disclosure, I did not pay for the bottle I am about to lovingly describe, but then again, it is not yet for sale, and if I waited it would be too late to tell you about it because it would no longer exist.
Spend a day there (or three, as I did while we waited for the boat's engine to be fixed), and you will fall in love with the friendly, beach bum lifestyle.
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