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The paper intends to fill a void in the research area of waiting, which is dominated by mathematical models that lack consideration of human factors. It calls for integrating psychological perspective into the waiting issue. This conceptual paper focuses on the structure of customer's service waiting time estimation. Although the Maister's first proposition on waiting time estimation continues to dominate research and managerial practice, several limitations indicate that it is not a complete picture of customers' waiting time estimation. The authors propose a new model of the structure of customer's waiting time estimation by specifying a more comprehensive model that includes the concept of time perception in psychology. The conceptual framework enables service operations managers to rethink service waits from customers' perceptions of actual waiting time.