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14. Procrastination. If you had more time, you’d be able to put it off longer. What do you put off to the last moment? Why? Tell a story about how you just barely got something done in time – or didn’t.
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The Wait

Submitted by lauragoldblatt on March 15, 2008 - 12:40.

The bell rings, right at 3 o'clock.
When I get out of class, I go to the door.
No one is there.
I go to my friend and I say, "Where do you think everyone is?"
"I don't know," he says. "Usually someone is here by now."
It's 3:30pm and we're all still...
waiting.
Everyone in the school is talking on their phone, trying to see if someone is coming.
I go to the cafeteria to buy something.
I go to my friend to share it with him.
He says, "Thanks, I'm starving."
I look at the clock. It's 4:15pm and we're still...
waiting.
This was getting annoying. It had probably never happened before, and it was the whole school, so that made it even weirder.
So I take out my phone to call my parents and I see the date.
It was Friday, March 13.
The time was 5:00pm and we were still...
waiting.
Are you superstitious?

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