// waited and assert based on that time. Empirically, the race where the thread ends up waiting
    // for 5.5 seconds happens about 2% of the time.
    boolean longWait = NANOSECONDS.toSeconds(thread.timeSpentBlocked) >= 5;
    // Count how long it actually took to return; we'll accept any number between the expected delay
    // and the approximate actual delay, to be robust to variance in thread scheduling.