Wait B.V. 2025-09-16T19:37:29Z
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Cold plastic seats biting through my jeans, fluorescent lights humming like angry wasps, and that godforsaken digital clock mocking me with each passing minute. Forty-seven minutes late for my specialist appointment in Utrecht, and I could feel my pulse pounding in my temples. Every rustle of paper, every cough from fellow captives in this medical purgatory amplified my claustrophobia. My knuckles turned white gripping the armrests - until my thumb brushed against my phone's cracked screen prote
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The fluorescent lights hummed like angry bees above the plastic chairs as I shifted for the eighteenth time. Utrecht Medical Center's waiting room smelled of antiseptic and dread. My palms left damp prints on the crumpled magazine about celebrity divorces - the only "entertainment" between me and root canal terror. That's when my thumb brushed against the icon by accident: a simple hourglass on blue. Wait unfolded like a paper flower, revealing John le Carré's "The Night Manager" in crisp digita