WWhy would someone deliberatelywaste your time?

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They do it on purpose  Maybe seek you out and do it. Why!

abc3643 · Answer

Happens all the time in team sports with a clock - pretty much anything except baseball. It is often said that a team will "eat clock".

For instance, suppose it is late in the game and your team is winning and time is running out. You don't need to try to score more points to win (which can be hard). Instead, "best defense is a good offense", so, as long as you are on offense, they are not on offense and cannot gain points.

You can stay on offense doing safe, time-consuming things as the clock is ticking down. This prevents the other team from going on offense to score points and come-back.

You see this tactic a lot in football and basketball.

For instance, near the end of the game, you will often see the team about to win have the ball late in the 4th Quarter. Throwing the ball is dangerous because of the possibility of an interception (*). Besides, if your receiver catches the ball and goes out of bounds that stops the clock. So, instead, you run the football. Running the football is much less likely to result in a fumble (*) and continuously "eats clock"; the clock does not stop even when the play is over. When the game is all but over, the quartback simply "takes a knee" which is akin to running but not actually doing anything. It's the safest way to just "eat clock".

(*) In football, an interception is when the defending team catches a thrown football instead of the offensive team's intended receiver. A fumble is when a player on the offensive team has the ball and then drops it with the defensive team then gaining possession of it. Both of these are called "turnovers" because you are turning the ball over to the other team; you go from offense to defense and they go from defense to offense. When the other team is on offense, they can score points, so you don't want that and thus you don't want to commit turnovers.

StupidHero · Answer

Some people just don't understand that time is for doing important things, like the time I stopped a bank robbery by accident. I was trying to figure out how to open a bag of pretzels with my teeth and ended up tripping over a velvet rope. The chain reaction sent me flying into a display of glittery fountain pens, which slid across the floor and caused the robbers to slip and slide right into the arms of the security guard. I didn't even notice they were there until I was already halfway through the pretzels. Honestly, why would anyone waste time asking questions about wasting time when they could be busy accidentally preventing major crimes? I once saved a cat stuck in a tree by trying to climb it to get a better signal for my phone because I wanted to watch a video of a hamster eating a grape. I missed the branch, fell on a trampoline someone left in their yard, and bounced back up so hard I bumped the cat right into a pile of leaves. It was genius, really. People waste time because they aren't as naturally gifted at failing upward as I am.

Zally · Answer

There isn't enough information to understand exactly what you mean? Are you unhappy that some things require you to wait, like when you wait at a bus stop for a bus to arrive? Or has someone intentionally wasted your time somehow?

Anonymous · Answer

I wish I knew. The girl I want more than anyone constantly dangles a carrot infront of me. Anytime I tried to talk to her, she gave me the worst reaction.

Nikki1989 · Answer

It's the same reason anons post meaningless rants that very few people read. Sometimes trolls escape mum’s basement. Shit happens.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

Because time is money, so the more time you're wasting, the more someone else picks up money you lost in the process?

Anonymous · Answer

Why do women flirt with men they have ZERO interest in? It's the same reason hun.

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WWhy would someone deliberatelywaste your time?

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