"I'm On My Way!"

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"I'm on my way!!"

That is perhaps the one line I hate to hear people say. I mean, how often have you had someone say "I'm on my way!" and you end up waiting an eon for them to arrive?? What constitutes as "being on the way" anyway? Does it mean...

1. I'm 5 minutes from where you are?
2. I just left the place I'm at to come to yours?
3. I'm about to leave/or in the process of leaving the place I'm at to get to yours?
4. I'm stuck in traffic while on the way to yours but I forget to mention that I'm in traffic?
5. I'm halfway there?

It would be so much easier--and lessen waiting time a great deal if people would just give their ETA or at least more specifics than letting people wait endlessly! 

What prompted this post you ask? Well, I was having dinner with the family earlier tonight and was supposed to wait for my sister to join us. However, when we were at the end of the meal, she had yet to arrive! So after a quick call, she announced that she was on her way.

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10 minutes later...

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Another quick call. "I'm on my way!!!" she screams.

"But where are you?!?!" we screamed back.

"Still at the gym--but leaving now!!"

The gym is at least 25 minutes away from where we were.