Yesterday, thanks to the Independence Day holiday, I was called in remotedly to help with some misrouted calls, and was stunned to find people waiting in excess of seven minutes to find out that the offices were closed. My wife, in her job, had to sit on hold for another department for THIRTY MINUTES recently, with no option to drop the call, as her client needed the resolution from that external department. My preference, when given the option, is to request a callback with the hold times are too long to wait, but as a comics fan, I’ve waited weeks, months and even years for the next chapter of my favorite books, leading to today’s delayed query…
The MS-QOTD (pronounced, as always, “misquoted”) did wait the better part of FIVE YEARS for issue three of ‘Ms. Mystic’ back in the day, only to find it kind of banal and insipid, which was a bummer, asking: How long is TOO long to wait?
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I’d imagine that it varies wildly depending on what it is you’re waiting for. Would it be the same metric of time for the next GRRMartin “Song of Ice & Fire” book as it is for the next RLiefeld “Youngblood?”
Only way to know is in the end. Was it worth it?
I was about to say 4 years between the Dresden File book, but George R. R. Martin was mentioned in a prior post.
Hey, at least we’re getting two Dresden books in the same year for our (im)patience!