# An Impatient MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156 "2013-01-14T11:34:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/1 "2013-01-14T11:34:28Z")
Sorry - got tired of waiting. I saw that \*\*Spidey \*\*was drafted to start us off today but it’s 6:30! Yes, I’m chronically early, overly prompt, and aggravated that the rest of the world isn’t like me. I consider waiting to be a waste of time - you can’t do anything else while you’re waiting because you might miss what you were waiting for!! So let’s get this show on the road! I don’t have all day, you know!! 😛 Happy Monday! ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/2 "2013-01-14T11:36:19Z")
Yeah, I was thinking about starting it myself. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/3 "2013-01-14T11:49:06Z")
Blurf. ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/4 "2013-01-14T11:55:43Z")
Ouch. ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/5 "2013-01-14T11:57:04Z")
Up, caffeinated, off to irk. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/6 "2013-01-14T11:59:05Z")
Sometimes I go to bed about now. For some reason I went to bed early and just woke up. It’s going to be a very long day… ---
**Author:** ![Jynxster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jynxster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jynxster)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/7 "2013-01-14T12:24:10Z")
Monday Monday, so good to me, Monday Monday, it was all I hoped it would be Oh Monday morning, Monday morning couldn’t guarantee That Monday evening you would still be here with me. ---
**Author:** ![scareyfaerie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scareyfaerie/32/3135_2.png) [@scareyfaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scareyfaerie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/8 "2013-01-14T12:36:26Z")
**Mooom** , your 6.30am is my 11.30am so I’ve had to wait even longer than you! Good job I was far too busy to be reading this first thing in the morning, I’ve only just managed to find a couple of minutes of peace in between demanding students and forgetful academics. Why isn’t it hometime yet? ---
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/9 "2013-01-14T12:54:31Z")
Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up, caffienated and at irk. ‘Tis 65 Amurrkin out as I post with a predicted high of 78 for the day. Very cloudy and foggy as well. Short sleeve weather in January in the northern hemisphere. What is this world comin’ to! I’m still all stuffded up in the haid. Seriously, I can barely hear. I hate this! I saw there was no MMP at a quarter of six this mornin’. I would have started it except I didn’t want to, so there. I reckon I should motivate myself to get busy with irk. Le sigh. Happy Monday Y’all! ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/10 "2013-01-14T12:57:28Z")
Here we are 30 min early for my daughter’s doctor appt. If we’d waited longer to leave we might have gotten stuck in traffic and been late and I would freak and my day would be ruined. Now we are early and having coffee and muffins at the coffee bar while we wait. Win-win! ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/11 "2013-01-14T13:12:23Z")
> [@ScareyFaerie](#): > > **Mooom** , your 6.30am is my 11.30am so I’ve had to wait even longer than you! You think **you** have it bad?! I had to wait until _ **Monday Afternoon** _ for my MMP fix!!! :Pant::Pant:😛 Jeez, youngsters these days… (Yes, it **was** uphill both ways. No snow however; If I said it were in the snow you’d \*\*know \*\*I was embellishing… :dubious::D) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/12 "2013-01-14T13:13:18Z")
Ah, **Toxgoddess** , you are me for sure! If I’m not at least 5 minutes early, I feel like I’m late. When invited to someone’s house for a social event, I have to force myself to arrive a bit after the invite time because I don’t want to always be first or to catch my host getting out of the shower. Of course, when I invite people to my place, I expect them to arrive on the dot, dammit! 😃 \*\*tugig \*\*- I wish I was going to bed by now. I woke at 2 and could NOT fall back to sleep. Naturally, I started feeling sleepy about 10 minutes before my alarm was set to go off. Today will be a long, zombieful day. I can’t even go home and crash - tonight we’re removing all of the countertops and hauling them to the garage in the hopes that I can sell them. I’ll grab something supper-like on the way home because I know I’ll be too tired to want to go out again. On the plus side, I’ve finished the last two drawings for our most recent project. I just need to get all my notes together and print out all of the drawings for the project notebook. Then I’ll get back to the ongoing monster pile of drawings that need to be edited. At least those aren’t rush-rush. Is it Firday yet? ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/13 "2013-01-14T13:14:46Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > You think **you** have it bad?! > I had to wait until _ **Monday Afternoon** _ for my MMP fix!!! :Pant::Pant:😛 Would it have broken your fingers to start it yourself?? 😛 Come to think if it, have you ever launched us? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/14 "2013-01-14T13:15:47Z")
> [@Noone\_Special](#): > > (Yes, it **was** uphill both ways. No snow however; If I said it were in the snow you’d \*\*know \*\*I was embellishing… :dubious::D) There’s some interesting wire service pictures of snow in Jerusalem floating around right now. You could make up for lost time… 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/15 "2013-01-14T13:21:42Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Would it have broken your fingers to start it yourself?? 😛 Come to think if it, have you ever launched us? :dubious: Actually, at least 2 or three times. Once within the last few months. ETA: > **[The Early Worm Gets the Bird -- an East of Greenwich MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=670302)** > > Well, it’s Monday here! And Swampy dared me, and I’m juvenile enough not to be able to resist 😛 So here goes… This MMP is brought to you by the number 6 and by the letter J. Try and find something that ties them together for you 😃 Or just hijack... > **[A Tale (Tail?) of Two Dogs - the MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=591472)** > > Well, it’s been a couple of busy weeks, inside and outside of the home for us. First, we took a loooong Christmas Weekend Getaway to London… The view of Kensington Park from our hotel room. We spent one day in Winchester - here are a couple of... > **[Our summer vacation - A Dutch MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479931)** > > We were on vacation in the Netherlands most of the first two weeks of August. Weather, while mostly grey and drizzley, was not outright hostile, and more importantly, wasn’t scorchingly hot, as European summers sometimes become. First two nights... > **[Purim -- a drunk (but not Irish!) MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=460033)** > > Everybody loves a carnival. Especially a drunk carnival. Everybody loves St. Patrick’s day. You don’t even have to be Irish to love it. Well… almost everybody. Jews have to do everything different, you see. I mean, we’ve been around since… well,... > **[In Memoriam -- Nov. 4, 1995 -- Yet Another Depressing MMP](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=443759)** > > This really should have been last week’s OP; except I didn’t think to reserve the date ahead of time – I only realized I needed to share when I got back from the rally. OK, I’ll start from the beginning… Nov 4, 1995, a huge rally was held in... > [@VunderBob](#): > > There’s some interesting wire service pictures of snow in Jerusalem floating around right now. You could make up for lost time… > > 😛 I actually got to see it in real time on Thursday (had to be in J’lem. It was… interesting getting there!) But I’m in the wrong city for snow even every few years. The last time a measurable amount of snow was seen in Tel Aviv was 1950. And I’m pretty sure that was the first time, too. ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/16 "2013-01-14T13:30:20Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > Ah, **Toxgoddess** , you are me for sure! If I’m not at least 5 minutes early, I feel like I’m late. When invited to someone’s house for a social event, I have to force myself to arrive a bit after the invite time because I don’t want to always be first or to catch my host getting out of the shower. Yeah, me too. I am chronically early. I really do have to drive around the block 3 or 4 times. Curse of a caterer, I guess. Can’t be late!! > [@Noone\_Special](#): > > Actually, at least 2 or three times. Once within the last few months. > > ETA: > [The Early Worm Gets the Bird -- an East of Greenwich MMP - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=670302) > [A Tale (Tail?) of Two Dogs - the MMP - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=591472) > [Our summer vacation - A Dutch MMP - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=479931) > [Purim -- a drunk (but not Irish!) MMP - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=460033) > [In Memoriam -- Nov. 4, 1995 -- Yet Another Depressing MMP - Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=443759) Dude. You can take the time to dig up all of those but you can’t manage to start a new one?? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21906_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/17 "2013-01-14T13:32:42Z")
OK, **Nooner** , you get a pass… for now. 😛 And on that note, I need to simulate something work-like… ---
**Author:** ![Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sticks_and_scones/32/16951_2.png) [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sticks_and_Scones)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/18 "2013-01-14T13:34:35Z")
Yeah, and I need to go study for Big Test #2. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/19 "2013-01-14T13:44:04Z")
I am early to everything except waking up. It’s 7:40 and I got up at 7am. Ergh, stoopid husband’s alarm clock. ☹ Otherwise I am about 30-15 minutes early to everything, most of the time. When I am not I get nervous, and I have no problem waiting when I get places because I am used to getting there early and having to wait anyway. I am a pretty patient person as a result. ---
**Author:** ![Noone\_Special](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/noone_special/32/2863_2.png) [@Noone\_Special](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Noone_Special)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2013, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156/20 "2013-01-14T13:51:59Z")
> [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Dude. You can take the time to dig up all of those but you can’t manage to start a new one?? 😛 One of the advantages of having started something like 20 threads overall in nearly 10 years – it makes looking them up a snap! 🙂 > [@FairyChatMom](#): > > OK, **Nooner** , you get a pass… for now. 😛 I’m **almost** tempted to pointedly **not** start us of in the foreseeable future… Just to see what kind of punishment \*\*Mooom \*\*has in store for me! :eek: 😛 > [@Sticks\_and\_Scones](#): > > Yeah, and I need to go study for Big Test #2. :eek: Dudette. You can take the time to take a snip at me but you can’t manage to sit yourself down and study…??? :p:D [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-impatient-mmp/647156.md?page=2)