Day 3 - Being willing to wait in line

What is clear already in this exercise is that 20 min doesn’t get me very far into interrogating anything, but what it did do was spark a conversation with my partner - you can see evidence of his comment on Day 1’s post, which I will get to, but we had more of a conversation about Day 2 - Lining Up.

My Day 2 question “what does it mean to be willing to line up” brought up a few things:

• “Brunch sucks” - ok, but it’s not exactly about the brunch, like I said, the hang with your friend. You are willing to wait in line with a friend as a kind of “revenge patience”.

Ok, I’ll back up - a few years ago, I read about the term “revenge procrastination” ( this comes from a Chinese expression haha, of course it does) - when you stay up later than you need to bc you need alone time. I don’t do this, but Derek does.

The line up is a kind of practice of patience. Perhaps in being forced to be a “weekend warrior”, we stand in line for brunch patiently as a way of taking back this time, not being pushed by work/productivity/capitalism by being willing to actively wait to spend quality time with your friend. Revenge patience.

• The line up brings up feelings of FOMO

Derek and I read the performance art line-up book while waiting in line for pizza in NYC. Several people had recommended this place. And when you see people in line for something, it must be good, right? Even when waiting in line, there were continued feelings of FOMO, theme and variations, if you will - are we going to make the best choice? Will we ever have time and be willing (overcome the stress of crossing the border ever again) to do this again? I noticed it was actually hard to slow down once we got the pizza to really fully enjoy it.

This does tie to the grocery store observation, which I will get to tomorrow. Thanks for reading.