It is amazing, right, to think how unbearable this sounds to us now. In theory it should be the opposite: we should embrace having to wait for one thing — whether it is a TV show, or a seasonal delicacy — because as we wait we have zillions of other things we can chose to do. Even as recently as ten years ago there were not so many things to possibly be doing. In more remote past, the waiting should have been harder to manage because the offer was simply not that abundant: while we waited for the next episode of Space 1999 there were not many other TV shows around — on a different day of the week. We should all question seriously the compulsive relationship we have with time.