Having no sense of how long things take has led to my always adding half an hour to how long I think anything will take. I figured out a long time ago that going shopping doesn’t just involve walking around shops - it involves:
Ever heard the phrase “You’d never get across the room if you had to think about how to walk”? I do get places, but it can be quite stressful, and the alternative is locking myself out of the house, or having to take two trips because I forgot my wallet, or something else which makes it even worse. It's all more or less part of a routine now so it doesn’t bother me quite as much as it could, but that’s the trick: It’s routine. It’s regimented. If I deviate from the routine, my world falls apart.
Welcome to my world.
- Getting ready to go to the shops (day clothes rather than pyjamas, shoes, brushed teeth etc)
- Finding everything I need for leaving the house (phone, wallet, keys, etc)
- Getting to the shops
- Finding a parking space
- Getting from parking space to shops
- Allowing time for having to “shop around” if you’re not happy with the price, or can’t find what you’re after in the first shop
- Waiting in line at the checkout
- Getting your things to the car
- Going back to the shops to get the thing you forgot to buy
- Waiting in the checkout line again
- Getting to the car again
- Driving home
- Unpacking your shopping
- Collapsing from the exhaustion of it all
Ever heard the phrase “You’d never get across the room if you had to think about how to walk”? I do get places, but it can be quite stressful, and the alternative is locking myself out of the house, or having to take two trips because I forgot my wallet, or something else which makes it even worse. It's all more or less part of a routine now so it doesn’t bother me quite as much as it could, but that’s the trick: It’s routine. It’s regimented. If I deviate from the routine, my world falls apart.
Welcome to my world.
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