Behold!
Below is a rudimentary list defining and subsequently documenting a myriad of tasks one can accomplish during the following time allocations:
The term for using big words to assert personal dominance over others has yet to be coined. In the meantime, feel free to use, 'egotistical overachiever' as an acceptable substitute.
Microwave Minute:
A term used to describe the activities one can accomplish whilst food is in the microwave. Tasks are seemingly endless, and include, but are not limited to, cleaning an entire house, re-tiling a floor, baking a turkey, and/or solving world hunger before coming back to the kitchen and realizing your Lean Cuisine still has thirty seconds before it’s done.
Sleep Minute:
The time it takes you to fall asleep, minus the time you are actually asleep, divided by the time spent knowing that you have to do something important in the morning. Symptoms include waking up thinking it is 3am believing you’ve been asleep for eight hours, just to look at your clock and realize you’re late for work. Alternatively, one can take a nap intended to last twenty sleep minutes, but in turn, accidentally lasts eight hours.
Hot Minute:
What you say to someone when you’re running late, but have no intention of actually taking less than sixty seconds to get your act together and get out the door. You can accomplish almost nothing in a hot minute, but your bottom dollar you’re going to give a fair effort.
Healthcare Minute:
What clinical secretaries give as a standard of measurement to let you know that your healthcare professional will be moving at a glacial pace, and will be with you after he or she has transversed across the entire globe during his or her lunch hour for a delicious sandwich, knowing full well you are a real person with a schedule to maintain, yet at the same time choosing to ignore your civic responsibilities in favor of their own personal satisfactions.
Travel Minute:
Often times, when traveling, you’ll hear the phrase, “Folks, this will just be a minute,” over the loudspeaker. Be aware that this means something is wrong and will most likely make you late for whatever it is you’re planning on attending. You can potentially read an entire novel and write a book report during a travel minute.
New York Minute:
A highly underrated film starring the incomparable tweens of my youth, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, that had absolutely nothing to do with time, but totally worth noting for the fashion sense, sophisticated plotline and dialogue.
Regular Minute:
An actual span of sixty seconds that is virtually non-existent because people like me are lazy and irresponsible, and people like you don’t enforce time constraints and allow me to get away with being late.
This is hysterical! I love the title and premise. The blurb in the yellow word box threw me for a regular minute until I got it.
Regular minutes will get you! They’re sneaky, because they’re accurate.
Reblogged this on John Greaves III and commented:
Meg Lago is funny. Read this and share with anyone who you think needs a Friday chuckle.