It's never the right time to eat
It's 5:20pm and I've yet to eat a thing all day. I got hungry at 3:30pm, then I reminded myself I had to go to the post office to get a thousand stamps, because this group of volunteers are gathering tomorrow to help insert a thousand brochures into a thousand envelopes and affix a thousand address labels and stick a thousand stamps to those thousand envelopes. (Thank God do not have to write the addresses by hand. Bite your tongue, girl.)
Well, the post office closes at 5pm, and so I think I had better go to the post office before eating, and then I remember I have no money so I have to drop by the bank ATM, plus I need to pay my mobile phone bill as well and the network operator's office closes at 5pm also.
Then I remember I have to call two other organisations because we are trying to get hold of their mailing lists for the volunteer group tomorrow, otherwise we won't have a thousand addresses, and that organisations generally close at 5:30pm, so I had better call them pronto. So I call them, and ask nicely, and find out that their mailing lists are not to be gotten, one because they are compiling said mailing list into a directory and it won't be ready till Sept; the other because the person in charge won't be in till Monday and if I miss her on Monday, everybody will be away at a retreat on Tuesday.
By the time I get to the bank and withdraw the money, I decide I had better go to the post office first because it is more critical to get the stamps; so what if I cannot use my phone over the weekend? Volunteers are depending on me to have a thousand stamps and my boss will kill me if I don't produce a thousand stamps. Of course I have to get a thousand envelopes too, but stores don't close till 10pm so I can do that later. The post office, it keeps normal working hours. Better hop over to the post office.
While in the post office I remember that I haven't printed out OUR mailing list address labels yet, and since we have around four hundred addresses that would mean I have to affix four hundred address labels and stick four hundred stamps all by myself if I don't get those labels ready for the volunteer group tomorrow. I also remember that I have never been in possession of a key to the office, so I had better hightail it there before 6pm when everybody leaves and I cannot get in. Of course I could print it at home, but then I remember that my printer and my CPU are bitter enemies and the blank address labels are in the office anyway.
With a thousand stamps in hand, I go to the office and print out our mailing list on the blank address labels, and here I am and it's 5:30pm and I still haven't gotten anything to eat and damn, I'm hungry. But I have a dinner appointment at 7:30pm and if I eat now, I won't be able to eat dinner later, so should I just wait and eat dinner later and risk fainting, or should I eat now and then sit back and weirdly watch the others eat later? Decisions, decisions...