Waiting for a tradesperson to arrive within a promised four-hour window is a special kind of modern torture. You can’t start anything substantive. I saw someone in a local community group joke that they survive these waits with amon bet. Out of sheer curiosity, I tried it. Flicking through different instant-win games on my phone made the time pass in active, bite-sized chunks rather than as one agonisingly slow blur. It transformed the passive frustration of waiting into a series of small, active moments, making the experience infinitely more bearable.
