Well who looks like the idiot now? And all this time you were wondering whether your friends were the rude ones or you were the jerk with unreasonable expectations?? Turns out you were just a day early! Whoops! Embarassing!!\n\nYou laugh at yourself and pack up and go home.

You get your phone out and open a new message. It's not that rude to check you're the only person coming, right?\n\nYou're all alone on this big table. You could go home if you wanted!\n\n<<if $visitMenu is "true">>Maybe you had the wrong day? Maybe you should check your [[calendar...|calendar]]<<elseif>>You'll give them another [[5 minutes.|menu]]<<set $waittime += 5>><<endif>>\n

Another drink? But then you'll need the loo. Apparently you have the bladder of a small girl. And then what if you're in the bathroom when the others arrive and then they don't see you and then they leave and what if it's all a <<if $visitMenu is "true">>waste of time.<<elseif>>[[waste of time|menu]].<<set $waittime += 3>><<endif>>\n\n<<if $visitMenu is "true">>Maybe you had the wrong day? Maybe you should check your [[calendar...|calendar]]<<endif>>

Even though you wear a watch, you pull out your phone and press a button to wake up the screen. The seconds electronically tick down. You put your phone away. \n\n<<if $visitMenu is "true">>Maybe you had the wrong day? Maybe you should check your [[calendar...|calendar]]<<elseif>><<set $waittime += 1>>[[You look at the menu.|menu]]<<endif>>

You order the eggs benedict but you misheard the waitress, you thought she said plastic salmon. <<set $waittime += 5>>\n\nThat's weird.\n\nYou're still the only person [[here.|Start]]<<set $restart = "true">> \n

You are sitting in a cafe.\n\nYou have been waiting for <<if $restart is "true">><<print $waittime>> minutes.<<elseif>><<set $waittime = 1>><<print $waittime>> minute.<<endif>>\n\n[[Check your watch.|watch]]\n[[Order a new drink.|drink]]\n[[Consider sending a message.|text]]\n\n

You've been waiting for <<print $waittime>> minutes.\n\nThe menu is minimalist and very hipster. It's got vegetarian and vegan and gluten free and additive free and sugar free options.<<set $visitMenu = "true">> \n\nYou're glad it exists but now you're paralysed by [[indecision!|choice]]\n\nYour phone [[buzzes!|message]]

You are in a cafe

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You check your phone, hoping it's someone you're supposed to be meeting. \n\nSadly it is not. You have been retweeted by a bot because of your cool and timely "Year of Luigi" joke.<<set $waittime += 3>>\n\nYou put your phone away and go back to staring out the [[window.|Start]]<<set $restart = "true">>

<<if $waittime gte 15>>You flip through your phone calendar, struggle to load Facebook, scroll through to the event time. Then you see it. You've got the wrong day! [[Oh no!|ohno]]<<elseif>>You've only been here a few minutes and you have always been on the punctual side. You put your [[phone away.|Start]]<<endif>><<set $waittime += 5>>

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