[[A man is in a car, talking on his phone.]]
Man: I'm just outside town, so I should be there in fifteen minutes.
Man: Actually, it's looking more like six days.
Man: No, wait, thirty seconds.
The author of the Windows file copy dialog visits some friends.
{{Title text: They could say "the connection is probably lost," but it's more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish.}}
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