In a Floyd Five Minutes

Perhaps other areas of the country experience similar oddities with the time space continuum, but Floyd is semi-regionally- famous for ours. If you tell someone you'll be meet them in a Floyd Five Minutes, what you're really saying is that you'll show up slightly late or be as much as 45 minutes to an hour behind the arranged time. It's loosey-goosey and expected from certain factions within the Floyd community, who shall remain nameless. It used to drive my husband and I completely nuts when we moved to Floyd going on eight years ago, but over the years we've relaxed and occasionally use the Floyd Five Minutes principle ourselves. My husband went to the reopening of the newly renovated Floyd Country Store last night to attend the Friday Night Jamboree. He mentioned that he wanted to say hi to some people and then he'd leave, but he thought about it for a second and then said he'd probably be there for a Floyd Five Minutes. I laughed and said I'd see him when he got home in an hour or so, but who's counting?