Procrastination: why do I never learn?

[sid]

Procrastination is evol, m'kay?

Procrastination is when you put off getting down on the floor on your belly, with a magnifying glass in hand, in order to get the serial number off your new refrigerator, so you can fill out the paperwork to receive a rebate on the $80 delivery charge.

Procrastination is discovering that you have left this chore until the very last possible day, and the paperwork has to be postmarked today, or you lose that $80, and will have no one to blame but yourself for never bothering to check for the deadline.

Procrastination means having to drive through a heavy snowstorm to the post office, with your windows rolled down for visibility's sake, realizing that if you get into an accident, it's going to be a lot more costly than $80.

*head/desk*

Comments

[esteven]

And? Did you get your rebate?

[sid]

I had better, after risking my neck! The envelope will be postmarked Feb. 7th, and the fridge was purchased Jan. 8th, so that meets the thirty-days-to-file requirement.

[(Anonymous)]

I will be keeping my fingers crossed.
*crosses*

[princessofgeeks]

*pets*

[sid]

*meeps*

At least it's safely over with and accomplished!

[untonuggan]

*offers tea and/or cocoa and a warm blanket*

[sid]

Mmmm, cocoa. :-) *snuggles contentedly*

[antares_dw]

This sounds a lot like me! *g*

I'm glad to hear you got that letter to the postoffice in time!

[sid]

In time, and without killing myself! \o/

[heather_mist]

Oh dear. :(
Perhaps it is not so much that you are a procrastinator as you work better to a deadline?!

It's all about the spin you put on things.... :D

[sid]

True, without the snowstorm it would be no big deal, just business as usual. *g*

[jdjunkie]

Oh, we've all been there, baby!

*offers tea, sympathy and hopes of a rebate*

[sid]

y r these lessons so hard 2 learn?? *shakes head at the foibles of humanity*

[tigerlilly2063.livejournal.com]

Sounds damn familiar, only that in my case I probably would've remembered only when it was too late.

That reminds me...

[sid]

Oh, yes, I'm pretty surprised that I actually made the deadline. I just randomly assumed I had something like three months to get it done. Sheer coincidence that I chose today to finally tackle it.

It would have been SO EASY to check the paperwork, though!

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

So it's your fault we're all getting hit with this snowstorm ordered by your fridge company, eh? ;o)

[sid]

Clearly! LOL

(I should get to your Soup tonight. :-)

[delphia2000.livejournal.com]

Ah, nothing like Soup for dinner on a snowy day....too bad it's not real soup tho. :oD

Like I said, you don't have too be too fussy with it. I'll never be able to file the numbers off it and sell it as erotica anyway. (I slay me!)

Oh, and yeah, major snowstorm here today. I wasn't kidding.

[sid]

I just shoveled off the back porch and stairs for the second time in 3 1/2 hours. I thought for a second that I was done, and then I thought, "Isn't there one more step?" Yep, but the snow was now deep enough to cover it completely and make it appear even with the ground.

*note to self not to break leg/neck/etc. on sekrit buried step*