Leaving the house

You have to leave the house at 2.

It’s 1 now and it’s going to take you half an hour to get ready.

So you fart about.

Then at 1:30pm, just as you’re heading to go get ready, your partner/parent asks you to do the dishes.

But you don’t have any time!

Your free time has run out, it’s getting ready time now!

You tell them you can’t do it but they get mad and make the valid point that you said you would do the dishes.

How can you argue with that?

You did say you were going to do the dishes.

So you either quickly do the dishes and spend the next half an hour stressed to the gills rushing through getting ready trying to make up time.

Or you decide you simply can’t afford the time and go get ready leaving your parent/partner fuming and no doubt face an argument down the line.

On reflection our anti-stress guide will point out that if you had only gotten ready first and then farted about second you could’ve avoided this problem.

So what lessons can we take about human behaviour from this tiny sliver of a situation?

We only get started when we absolutely have to?

Given the choice, we’ll take farting about now over farting about in the future?

We often assume nothing will upset our plans?