The Longest Minute

Do you ever feel like some minutes last longer than others? That time works against you: speeding up the moments that feel good and stretching out the ones that bring pain? In an effort to ensure that all things in the world are categorized into nice, neat buckets of good vs. bad, I've compiled two lists: the longest minutes and the shortest minutes. I'm fairly convinced that time is truly accelerating or slowing without our knowing.

List #1 The Longest Minutes:
The 2:30 minutes of chair-pose in Boot Camp (and most other timed exercise)
Waiting for sushi to arrive
Waiting for the phone to ring for someone who says they're going to call at a certain time
Any mode of public transportation
Waiting for good vs. bad news
Waiting. Period.
The dentist (or any medical procedure)

List #2 The Shortest Minutes:
Minutes of a massage
Talking on the phone when you're calling a loved one from a foreign country on a phone card
Eating dessert
Descending a hill on a bike, snowboard, etc.
The time in-between when your alarm goes off and the snooze
Working against a deadline
Running for the bus (or any other public transportation that you're late for)
Anytime you're late for anything
When you can't sleep & you keep looking at the clock

Time may offer a systematic method for measuring the moments of our lives, but our minds can and do play tricks, letting us weight our experiences. A time machine would be great, but how about a machine that can stretch out the pleasure and decrease the pain? Please submit business proposals.