• radix@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Does waiting on the phone count? If so, six hours to get someone at the IRS, so they could fix the mistake in 2 minutes.

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      7 months ago

      That’s wild. I feel like the phone network is too dicey, like my call would have dropped at some point over six hours

  • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    7 months ago

    The first time I was at Disney Land after they replaced the People Mover Tram in Tomorrow Land with that Crash Test Dummy ride. Waited like 2 and half hours for a 6 minute ride that wasn’t even that impressive.

    But no. I once got to the DMV an hour before they opened and only just barely got to the counter before they stopped serving people at 5pm.

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    7 months ago

    Back in the before times, I sat in line for 36 hours for front row seats for a David Bowie concert in 1987.

    It turned into a street party for the 100 or so people in the line.

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    7 months ago

    Something like 13.8 billion years from the Big Bang till I was born. Still not sure it was worth the damn wait.

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    7 months ago

    I once waited 3.5 hours for free pancakes at IHOP. I had a shit week and just wanted some free pancakes, but they accidentally crossed my name out before even seating me, so I saw multiple groups arrive after, eat, and leave before my dumbass thought “maybe I should say something.”

    Also, my phone was dead for the last 2 hours of that.

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      Ah, I remember being at the grocery store when it first started happening and they were only letting so many people in at a time, so they had turned their parking lot into a queue by flipping grocery carts over and tying police tape from cart to cart

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    7 months ago

    Traffic. I25 north from Denver. 3 hours from when I realized my fuck-up to the next possible exit thanks to a flatbed truck across all 3 lanes trying to remove a white suv that was somehow high centered perpendicular on the concrete median with no visible damage.

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    7 months ago

    I waited for over 12 hours to get a Wii back when it launched. It was pretty fun, but I’ve never waited like that again since.

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    7 months ago

    I think it’s got to be for some ride at an amusement park, I can’t of anywhere else I’ve willingly waited in line over 3 hours for something.

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      I think I waited for about 2 and a half days for mine. Turns out the Walmart I was at didn’t get as many as they said so they gave me an iou. Fortunately they did actually get them in a week later.