I opted not to go and found myself with dead time.
"You can't have 10 minutes of dead time or you'll lose everybody."
You also say there is too much dead time during games.
The result is a performance which has no "dead time".
"There is no dead time in this town," he said of Washington.
After five minutes of dead time on hold, he gets a real person.
The hours between meetings, for example, are no longer dead time.
But it does try to make use of the dead time spent waiting.
He sat there for what seemed a long time, dead and empty.
Probably playing cards, ever a good way to pass dead time.