A friend and a fellow blogger wrote about learning to wait. I am afraid I am one of those seemingly impatient persons when it comes to waiting. Be it in a traffic (I guess this is inevitable), drugstores, mall payment counters, doctors’ offices and the like.
It is a good thing, there are now “senior citizens” lane when paying for one’s purchases. It rather cuts the time waiting for a few minutes. I usually buy my maintenance medicines at Mercury Drug Store. There is this branch close to our place that serves their clients oh so slow. There are more senior citizen buyers than regular customers. Now, I remember, the municipal hospital is also close by so the customers are always in line.
When I left the bank where I used to work back in the year 2000, I enrolled all our utilities for online payments. Paying online is easier than waiting for your number to be serviced by a bank teller. As long as you have a wi-fi and your app is updated, you’re good to go. Online transactions too are now in place for those merchants selling clothes, gadgets, even grocery items. Most of them deliver the items free (I guess the delivery charge is already included in the cost). Some are paid in cash as soon as you get the items. Food merchants have delivery charges when you order online but you’d be assured that the items you ordered would be delivered in less than 30 minutes. If you are quite lazy to go out because of the traffic and and the not so friendly smog in your area, it is still the best option. You just have to wait for a while.
The internet has surely gone a long way to help us in our daily lives. You don’t have to buy a newspaper every day to get updated with news. Just read online and that’s it. For those trolls online, it is also the easiest access to publish fake news. So beware.
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