It's happened to all of us. We say we're going to do something and forget that one of the following options in having made that promise was, well excessive.
As in too optimistic for words.
Like, the time you said it was not a problem to finish that ten page paper, buy you forgot that you'd be playing a gig that night and you also forgot you only owned 1 page of knowledge for said paper.
Or, the time you told your Mum you'd happily come over and weed the garden, but then the day of weeding approached, and the thermometer was breaking out of the 90's, heading toward 110, and the humidity was giving the temperature a run for its money. And, you don't do well in heat.
Plus, that cute guy you wanted to have ask you out, or the girl you really wanted to ask out, told you they'd be free for a picnic that day, and high temperatures and humidity were suddenly not too much of a problem.
Or, you got into a book and you couldn't put it down, even if you've not had more than an hour of sleep in the past three nights, due to that very book. Plus, you didn't want anyone to know it was War and Peace that caused your insomnia.
Okay, those are all excuses for the younger group. After all, in the work world, there aren't many excuses that get you out of doing something or other.
Except possibly this one.
You are a week away from homeless, you've not been paid in five months, and the idiot that's not writing checks wants more and more free labor.
Now, what would you do? Go to work on that "other" job? Do an additional paying gig? Tell the nonpaying idiot that you are not really up for much more indentured servitude?
Well, which is it?
In this economy, jobs are tight. But, what would you do, only to hang onto the title "employed?"
Inquiring minds and all that.
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