“And since Rebecca already placed your order five minutes ago, I can only assume that this was an excuse to check out my rack. All done?”
“If I only had five minutes left to live, I’d only be half as alarmed as normal, because my watch is five minutes fast. And I can get a lot done in 10 minutes.”
“Five minutes ago it was five minutes late, and my watch is five minutes slow.”
“Sometimes what I did five minutes ago scared the fuck out of me five minutes later.”
“Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.”
“If I'd wanted you dead five minutes ago, you'd have died five minutes ago.”