Examples of time seeming longer or shorter than it objectively is?

A two and one half hour shift at the reference desk when it is slow.

Seems long or short?

Oh – long!

Ah.

Sitting in the dentist’s chair, waiting for the resident radiologist to read my mammogram in situ, and driving a live mouse in its little Havahart to the Promised Land seems to stretch time.

I almost grew a beard whist watching the oscar ceremony…almost.

shit, I missed the edit window…card games have no place in my answer.

Those last few minutes on any intense aerobic machine can seem like an eternity. Watching the timer count down, second by second, doesn’t help.

When someone tells me a long, boring story—as a monologue with the person talking nonstop—I feel as if I age a few months.

Let’s not forget the proverbial watched pot that “never” boils; it does seem to take forever.

Any activity that I’m feeling awkward in lasts forever.

Long – having a root canal.
Short – paying for it.

Waiting for a ride, whether private transportation or public, seems to s-t-r-e-t-c-h time.

Being with someone when you’re falling in love compresses time….

M o n d a y t o F r i d a y

FridaytoMonday

When you decide to sleep in for like another hour or something and it seems the moment you close your eyes the stupid alarm is beeping an hour later.

When you are forced to take an early lunch at work, the length of the rest of the day increases ten-fold. Saturdays and Sundays are also infinitely shorter than weekdays. This is unfair.

@SadieMartinPaul Oh lord, yes. I literally count every second of the last 3 minutes of my treadmill runs.

The dentist takes at east 3 times the amount of time he should take.
The masseuse is finished much too quickly.

@diavolobella I know exactly what you mean! 2:50, 2:49, 2:48… It’s like watching paint dry.

Microwave minutes are longer than regular minutes.