['I was doing this chat room thing, and I walked away for a minute.', 'Oh yeah?  How did that go?', 'Well one minutes turned to ten, and the next thing I knew, the chatroom had expired, and I had stranded the person waiting on me.']
Yep that happens lots of times but, I don't think we're supposed to talk about the elephant in the room per the instructions..
I was doing this chat room thing, and I walked away for a minute.  One minute turned to ten, and the next thing I knew, the chatroom had expired, stranding the person waiting on me.