My wife renewed her drivers license recently, as she turned 29, again, on September 24th. She went into the Registry near our place, filled out the form, paid her money, got her picture taken and was given a "temporary" drivers license to last her until her real license was sent to her. If the real license takes too long her temporary license is going to expire on her and that could cause no end of grief.
My bus takes a little bit longer to get to work in the morning as there is a "temporary" detour on it's normal route. The city has dug a hole in the road, the entire width of the road, in order to do some emergency repair on the pipes. They don't have a lot of time to get this done as it impacts a lot of traffic, a lot of buses (both ETS and school) and a lot of residents. The only way to get to certain houses is to wind your way through back alleys. Oh yeah, this is definitely going to be temporary.
My daughter has a temporary spacer in her mouth. One of her baby teeth, incorrectly filled by an earlier dentist, developed some severe damage and needed to be pulled. A temporary spacer was inserted so that her teeth would grow in their proper place until the adult tooth comes in. The spacer is going to be removed either when the adult tooth comes in, or when the baby tooth to which it is attached falls out. No choice, it is temporary.
We have servers, both physical and virtual, which were set up for temporary purposes. We now have to face the task of upgrading them from NT 4 to something supported. (OK, I lied, but you get the point, don't you?) If things are temporary, give us a date and we will set up the system to self destruct on the day after. If things aren't temporary, for goodness sake, tell us!!!!! The "Oh, it was temporary, but the client said ..." story is getting old and, quite frankly, has been done better by other teams.
Remember temporary means that it goes away. Pick a date. Any date. Please....
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