What is your relationship to waiting?

Yesterday I had to stop at the bank and I was going to do it on my way to pick  Little Bit up at her school. But there was a tree trimming event going on with trucks blocking the narrow road up behind the lake that I always take, so I listened to NPR and looked through the cookbook I had brought with me - I brought it to read in the parking lot at her school because I always plan to get there early. After I picked her up we stopped at the bank to use the ATM outside. It's the kind you have to walk up to and we had to park pretty far away and there was a line, so we played in the grass and leaves for awhile and then the line went away. Then we walked over to the lake which is just a few blocks away, and she wanted to play with sticks, which she adores, so we sat down in the bird sanctuary and she paced and sat and gathered sticks and broke them and I helped her find just the right sticks and looked at my book for a while and asked her which things she thought she might like to try. When you ask her something you have to be patient about getting an answer - she'll repeat your question back to you and sometimes you have to rephrase things a few different ways and then wait.  Sometimes we play games - I have jax in my truck, and a paddle ball and a jump rope. We've tried games like Sorry and Parcheesi and the process is very time intensive, especially at first. Sometimes we just attempt things without making any real progress for an hour or longer. And that's fine. Sometimes the progress just isn't showing through yet, and sometimes it isn't really there but the trying is a thing in itself. Wherever I go I take a book and a notebook and usually my camera with me. I always leave plenty of time, always get where I'm going early, always have something to play with. I don't exacty think of it as waiting, I think of it as what I'm doing before I do the next thing. Being willing to take time for things removes all that stress that wads up people's faces in traffic. It's a useful skill I think.