Sunday, September 20, 2020

Things That Seem to Take Ages


Our perception of time can be seriously altered by what's going on, especially if we're under incredible stress, experiencing uncertainty, or microwaving a burrito in a completely quiet house. Time and space can also change based on where you live, as evidenced by this Tumblr thread on cultures colliding over time and space.

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Text - PipelinePunch_71 21 points · 5 days ago Heating something up in the microwave at 2 am because it sounds like a jet taking off in your house

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Text - Text - ExtraMediumGonzo 57.9k points · 6 days ago 12 18 & 41 More The moments after sending a risky text and you see, "So-and-so is typing..", but it keeps starting and stopping. Reminds me of a tweet that went something like: "You ever send a text that's so risky, you clean your entire house?"

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Text - Text - ScottNilsson1 23.2k points · 6 days ago & 7 More unskippable 30 second ad

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Text - Text - Kmm123 20.1k points · 6 days ago 3 5 3 & 8 More Having "Happy Birthday" sung to you

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Text - Text - Cooper_brain 18.5k points · 6 days ago e & 13 More Trying to put my change back in my wallet in line at the convenience store with people in line behind me Or when your card won't read in the debit machine, but you know you have the money in your account so you have to run it two or three more times

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Text - Text - gravityfalls-fan 18.1k points · 6 days ago 4 4 Waiting for someone to get out of the bathroom

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Text - Text - -EDGAR- 16.1k points · 6 days ago Getting past the sex scene while watching a movie with your parents & 2 More

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Text - Text - kaazgranaat2309 14.9k points · 6 days ago 2 2 e When someone says "we need to talk"

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Text - Text - becelav 13.3k points · 6 days ago · edited 5 days ago 3 & 4 More My toothbrush vibrates every 30 seconds letting me know it's time to switch sides. Sometimes it feels like i brushed for 4 minutes and it vibrates again.

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Text - Text - PhoenixsCurse 9.4k points · 6 days ago Before your scores are announced

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Text - Text - Time_Significance 9.1k points · 6 days ago You are on a bus, going home, when 3/4 of the way through you have the overwhelming urge to pee.

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Text - Text - MrFrogmanwerr 8.9k points · 6 days ago · edited 6 days ago Washing machine says 30sec... It is never 30sec:(

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Text - Text - LoneBear1 8.7k points · 6 days ago Being in a CT scanner when they tell you to be perfectly still.

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Text - Text - Xxsarahhah 8.5k points · 6 days ago 3 & 7 More plank Bleenwithcream 2.7k points · 6 days ago + I don't think I've ever experienced the slowing of time until I did a plank. There's some kind of time warp.

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Text - Text - Boogiyg2003 7.5k points · 6 days ago When the traffic light changes from red to green

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Text - Text - danidaliquijote 6.2k points · 6 days ago · edited 5 days ago 93 3 3 My mom had a surgery to save her life and when her surgeon walked across the waiting room to update me those were the longest seconds of my life. About halfway towards me he gave a thumbs- up and wow-happiest moment!

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Text - Text - mousicle 4.3k points · 6 days ago Gotta be drowning or almost drowning. Gordon Lightfoot wasn't kidding when he said the waves turn the minutes to hours. Two incidents still stick in my head decades after they happened, once at swimming lessons before i could tread water and the instructor wasn't paying attention to me and i started going under. It was probably only 30 seconds but i thought that was it. Another time having a Canoe overturn in lake Erie and trying to get it righted.

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Text - Text - TatterCatYT 3.6k points · 5 days ago The time in between a baby falling and crying. (Thump) ... ... ... WAAAAAAAA

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Text - Text - 50ShadesOfPalmBay 1.2k points · 6 days ago Paying by debit while there's people in line behind you in the grocery store. Will it go through? Do I have enough? What if I looked at my account wrong and I don't have the money? Nono, I do. Wait, what if there was some withdrawal that happened that I forgot about? Oh shit. Was that the right PIN number? The right account I clicked on? -Approved. You sure? Ok, phew /s

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Text - Text - DRW0813 1.1k points · 6 days ago Waiting on a pregnancy test to see the level of fucked your life is about to be.

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Text - Text - Leoprrrd 791 points · 5 days ago I don't know about 30 seconds, but the longest 5 seconds you'll ever experience: getting tased. Source: had to get zapped and sprayed as a part of MP training. OC hurts a hell of a lot more, but the taser makes five seconds feel like an eternity.

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Text - Text - Holaroooo 756 points · 5 days ago When putting a fixed amount of gas in the car in the freezing cold and the pump slows down for the last half dollar.

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Text - hinterloper 509 points · 5 days ago Running as fast as you can on a treadmill

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Text - browneyedgrl26 173 points · 6 days ago Leg cramp

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Text - SingleDadGamer 41 points · 6 days ago Whenever Chef Ramsay calls up a contestant during elimination. "Paula <camera cuts to reaction shots for 30 seconds> give me your jacket". Even worse though is when they delay it first by going: "James <camera cuts to reactionary shots> back in line"

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Text - Notmiefault 172 points · 6 days ago As someone who does intermittent fasting, the final 30 seconds before the clock flips over and I'm allowed to eat.

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Text - I_ama_Borat 22 points · 5 days ago Drawing blood. The doc: "doing good, just two more vials" Me: 0_0

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Text - jdubs2006 22 points · 5 days ago Flushing the toilet at a friend's house and just praying it goes down

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