@Jayne – I have thought this before also. I remember being a kid and going out for dinner at a restaurant with my parents.
I would be constantly fidgeting, acting up and bouncing around. Time took ages to receive my traffic-light drink or my curly fries. I would eat quickly and then get impatient wanting to leave.
I couldn’t understand how my parents could take so long to eat and then sit around for ages afterwards. I just wanted to go go go all the time. Even my father slowly getting up off of the sofa perplexed me. I would leap up and be bouncing and around in the time it would take for him to stand up. He would say something like “Calm down, I’m getting there. What is the rush?” I guess there was no rush but I felt like everything was so slow.
Now, as an adult, I understand! I see kids acting the same way I did… always impatient. Time took forever back then.