The Wait time for a MINI
Found this on the MINI Cooper owner network web site, describing the length of time one waits for your MINI Cooper to be built and arrive at your dealer. I quiet enjoyed this:
It does however seem MUCH worse if you try to track your MINI’s progress. Then it seems to take forever to get into production status - followed by ANOTHER forever to get out of the factory, a third, subtly longer forever to make it to the docks - but then the forever’s just seem to get longer. There are at least three eternities rolling slowly and painfully past as the boat with the car on board creeps across the ocean at speeds that only qualified glacial geologists can measure. The Hindu calendar has a special word for the amount of time the car takes to get through the VDC - and the truck bearing your new baby to the dealership has a speed comparable to that of an asthmatic snail carrying two heavy bags of shopping.
Fortunately, the drive home in your new car make physicists wonder whether Einstein really was correct about that ‘not going faster than the speed of light’ thing…which completely makes up for it. In the end, the total time is still 6 to 10 weeks.
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