Is there any way to avoid WAIT being broken on layout change?

If I have something happen at the start of the layout, then add in a WAIT 10 seconds command and trigger something else... if I change the layout before those 10 seconds have passed, the event chain breaks.

Is there a way to stop this from breaking? I mean, I understand that it makes sense the way it is, but on my program, it breaks things.

Is there a way to make the eventsheet global, somehow? So it runs on its own?

I can think of ways around this, but they require a massive amount of effort :( Had I thought of this being an issue ahead of time, I would have planned for it... but I'd rather know if there was a quick and easy solution to my issue, before I have to tear everything apart and essentially re-write 200 events :(

EDIT - In before someone tells me about shared events sheets. This sheet is already shared.

It's always a bad idea to use long running waits like that. You don't have any control - can't pause or cancel the delayed actions.

I would do this with a global object+Timer, as oosyrag suggested. Another option is to compare system time from the Date plugin.