How come, at 3:00 every Friday afternoon, time just seems to stop?
I wanna go home! Don’t wanna be at work! And it’s only 3:14 for cripes sake!
That clinches it. It’s not just me. But maybe it only applies to those of us in the mountain time zone.
Hmmm… and also, we’re both database geeks. MST + database = time stops at 3pm Friday? A new phenomena!
Time slows down incrementally the closer you get to 5pm. I submit to you the fact that it’s 5:20 where I am right now, waiting for a friend to get out of work so we can go shopping. The last 20 minutes have taken at least three hours to crawl by.
I feel your pain.
Gamera is really neat, he is full of turtle meat, we’ve been eating Gam-er-aaaa…
Nope – it hit me about an hour and a half ago and I’m in the central time zone. The only good thing is is that it usually is ok at about 4:30. (I swear I can be falling asleep with my eyes open at 4:20, and at 5pm I feel like I could run a marathon!)
Maybe this is a blonde statement…but isn’t it 5pm somewhere? and can’t we just go by that time??
I really try to be good but it just isn’t in my nature!
Only if YOU explain it to my boss, PCW…
[cackling] Aha! My time distortion generator is working perfectly! Soon, I will rule the world![/cackling]
Now with 1000 posts of pure wisdom!
(or something)
I have been trying to get a grant to study this for years - the Friday afternoon time warp…
THat seems to be the time most people want to take a nap.
Not only does time stop at 3:00 PM Friday, but the SDMB does, too (5:00 PM Central). You east coasters go home and leave us schmucks on the west coast with a dead board and 2 hours to kill on Friday afternoons 
But it’s 5:00 PM now so I’m going home! Woo hoo! 
“I hope life isn’t a big joke, because I don’t get it,” Jack Handy
Neener neener!
I stayed home today and time just flew by!! Bwaaa ha ha ha ha!!
I did have to go to the doctor. I was up all night with a pain in my back which had been getting worse for a couple of days. I finally figured out was my kidneys. I checked the Home Medical Guide and it said this was a symptom of a kidney infection, so I went to the doc to get some antibiotics.
Turns out it wasn’t exactly an infection – there is inflammation but he wasn’t sure what the cause was. His exact words, and I quote, was that my kidneys are “pissed”! I thought he was making a joke and actually did a double-take when he told me, but he was serious. He gave me some antibiotics anyway and told me to come back Tuesday after the lab had more time to figure things out. So I might get to stay home Monday too!!
I’ll be sure you all know about it if I do!!
“You have no choice but to be impressed.”
Tony Rothman and George Sudarshan
Doubt and Certainty
Y’all wanna know something? I don’t know if it starts at three, but I’ll take your word for it.
Anyway, the point is that it continues to slow down at a geometric rate until it actually moves so slow it seems to go backwards.
See, I work at night, from 4p to 1a. I also am in the mountain time zone. And by 7p, time has actually stopped! then it starts to pick up at about 9, right when I go to lunch, in fact it flies by, until 10 when I get back on the phone. Then it slows down again, and creeps along until 1a. Then it flies to last call at 1:30a.
Time is really weird here in the funky mountain time zone.
Just so ya know, it happens at night, too!
“Winners never quit and quitters never win, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.”
hope you feel better pluto, drink lots of fluids, but no caffeine, ever tried cranberry juice?? That covers a number of ailments.
“Subconsciously there are many people you hate.” “Consciously,sir, consciously.” Yossarian corrected in an effort to help. “I hate them consciously.”
yep, 3:00. My nap time. I work the afternoon and night as well. Luckily I carpool. The days I don’t drive I’ll often nap on the way to work.
And the afternoon - DRaagsss.
~handcrafted signatures since 1975~
Seen on a port-a-john wall.
‘Here i sit, tired and dirty
Hiding out, until 3:30’.
Truly a universal phenomanon.
Boy, I’m with ya there. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve felt that way, and…what was that? Oh… You meant something different, right. I’ll just shut up then.