How many times gentlemen, have you mixed and consumed numerous drinks, cleaned out the cat box,  parts of the garage, or watched the complete BBC doc "Life on Earth"  while waiting for your date, wife, or significant other to get ready? It's nuts. Finally  a one Lian Amaris Sifuente, a professor and performance artist at Columbia, lets NYC and the world see what ladies (and guys-let's admit it) put many of us ready-in-ten-minutes through; all to be performed and filmed on the corner sidewalk of Union Square.

On a set resembling an old-fashioned boudoir, containing a chaise and a vanity and strewn with dresses and shoes, Ms. Sifuentes is going through the predate exercises, only she is stretching them out, by moving very, very slowly, which is to say not moving much at all. To prepare for a date it will take her 72 hours, from midnight Friday to midnight tonight. On Saturday afternoon she had a single glass of wine. It took seven hours. (NYTS)

Time is relative but come on. And don't even think about complaining about it. It would take forever to convince them to hurry up. Just sit back and mix another shaker-full of drinks.