A wasted day is spent doing nothing because someone else has made it impossible. For instance, being forced to sit all day in a waiting room, only to be told that you have to come back tomorrow, the test results didn't come in yet. Or getting stuck having to sit in the living room all day waiting for a delivery man, can't even slip down to the basement to do a load of laundry in case you don't hear the knock on the door. And then the guy doesn't show up until after everyone else is home from school/work.
 Of course, now with my Kindle, I can at least play solitaire and exercise my brain a little.
Ida