It might be lockdown. It might be age. It could be a combination of any number of things I haven't contemplated yet, but I have noticed that F gets lost for a while each day in what can only be described as small random acts of pointlessness.
They are things she does when she could or should be doing something with more use to it, so she is either prevaricating, or has so much time on her hands she can be distracted into cleaning the tea-strainer with a pin just because she noticed it was clogged. Who even has time to notice such things?
And having noticed them, who would bother?
Really?
Or sorting a whole jar of buttons into 2 holes vs 4 holes, just because she was looking for two matching ones to make 'eyes' on a toy.
No one will notice. It won't save the world.
Even flossing your teeth or taking a nap has more point to it than those activities.
Even flossing your teeth or taking a nap has more point to it than those activities.
Do you know anyone who engages in small random acts of pointlessness often enough for it to be considered a habit or a character trait?
Always happens when I’m cleaning a cupboard
ReplyDeleteI get sidetracked but something and then it’s all about that little thing and I don’t get the big thing done
It might be the age thing lol
Well as we get older there is more history (or her story) in the cupboard....
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ReplyDelete......eeeeeeeeerrrrrrrmmmmm..... (looks sheepishly to the ceiling contemplating a whistle...)... Hugs and whiskeries, YAM-aunty xxx
Small acts of random pointlessness?? Hmmm can't think straight f anyone around here, especially me . We've all got so much time on our hands, why not??
ReplyDeleteYour furry friends will enjoy clean dinner ware
That all sounds quite familiar!
ReplyDeleteSorting is never pointless - I love it! There's a sort of flow - almost a meditation - to it. And my usual excuse is that in ling run it's time saved. Give me some boxes and a label machine and a happy afternoon can be conjured in even the foulest of weather! I rather like cleaning floors to... Does this make me strange? Okay- probably - enough...!
ReplyDeleteCleaning floors is never pointless (irrespective of what Joan Rivers had to say about housework). Labeling is only pointless if (as a running joke in our family has it) one of the labelled boxes is for 'bits of string too short for further use'.
DeleteI am thinking the answer to the question, is we are all suffering from Coviditiis and he lockdown and anything we can do makes us feel better. i do have to say I have never cleaned a tea strainer with a pin, but then I DON"T have ONE. ha ha IF I did i might clean it that way... i have soaked a few pans, but not cat pans, just dog pans.. that dry food mixed with slobber hardens like a rock. i spend moments of every day cleaning slobber mud from the water dish... oops forgot you said Pointless, ummm how about cuting a dog out of a photo and putting it in another photo? pretty pointless I think
ReplyDeleteMr T's view is that cleaning up animal slobber is never pointless. It is what humans were put on this earth for. Mr T clears his nose by shaking his head. It must rattle his brain, but it has the effect of flinging cat snot far and wide - we find it when dust sticks to it (never have white tile floors, you only spend half your life cleaning the dashed things).
DeleteYour daily life, apart from working sounds like ours, we get into a pattern of pointless things as important things, as long as she's happy that's the main thing.
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