Dear LPG,

During any lifetime there are periods where it is mandatory to wait. 

I am the youngest of five children and spent a lot of my childhood waiting.  I was always watching and waiting for my turn to get the opportunity to do things that might not have bothered me at all, but for the fact that there was nearly always something that one of my older siblings had or had done that I was not allowed to because I was too young.  I watched as each of them did grown up things like wear proper school uniforms, go to school, get more pocket money than me and so many other things that really seem insignificant now.  But I also watched as they each took exams, some with better results than others, which prepared me for that waiting period between taking them and getting the results when it was my turn. 

There are then those things that we all have to wait for like that period between the job interview and finding out if you got the job, and I think that the longest minute of my life was the one between the end of my asking my future wife to marry me and her answer.

Nowadays I think that waiting has become a bit of a dying art for the younger people among us. In recent years, and in my experience, once they have got past those younger years of mandatory waiting, the majority of people now seem to need everything straight away and nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to online shopping. I cannot believe the amount of money my children will pay to make sure that something they order today will arrive tomorrow.

The one thing that we are all waiting for is the day that we are all free to view lockdown and self-isolation as a thing of the past, and I think that last year has taught quite a few people a bit about patience.

I found an online quiz or two which might help you to pass a little time if you are busy waiting for something to happen…

IY, Croydon

IY has found some online quizzes that might help you pass a little time as you work out just how patient you are…

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