Cost-Benefit Analyses for the Way We Really Live
1. The time and effort of shaving your legs during your morning shower weighed against the probability that you will have sex that night.
2. The time, effort, and embarrassment of taking out the garbage in your pajamas weighed against the likelihood that the contents will be reeking by morning.
3. The likelihood that you will eventually make a satisfactory French twist in your hair weighed against the likelihood that you won't, and will therefore mess up your regular hairstyle without successfully creating a new one.
4. The effort of changing out of your stained shirt weighed against the likelihood that you will run into someone you used to date at the grocery store.
5. The desire for a latte weighed against the inevitable long wait in line and $4 price.
6. The cost of, and, again, the effort of waiting in line to pay for, a new lipstick weighed against the likelihood that its shade will actually flatter you.
7. The cost and effort of getting your sweater dry-cleaned weighed against the likelihood of being able to wear it one more time without anybody noticing an odor emanating from you.
8. The financial savings, non-wastefulness, and convenience of cooking the meat in your refrigerator weighed against the odds that it will make you sick because it's older than it really should be.
9. The calories in the beautiful cookies at a party weighed against the odds that they will actually taste as good as they look.
10. The physical strain and discomfort of holding it in weighed against the odds that someone will take your seat on the plush couch if you get up to go to the bathroom at a coffeehouse.
11. The desire to take a photograph of your dinner of Ty's Morrocan Lamb for your blog weighed against the likelihood that you will actually get the frickin' camera to work before your food gets cold (I didn't get it to work, in case you were wondering).
12. The effort of clipping it weighed against the probability that your hangnail will catch on your clothing and really, really hurt.
Yours?
2. The time, effort, and embarrassment of taking out the garbage in your pajamas weighed against the likelihood that the contents will be reeking by morning.
3. The likelihood that you will eventually make a satisfactory French twist in your hair weighed against the likelihood that you won't, and will therefore mess up your regular hairstyle without successfully creating a new one.
4. The effort of changing out of your stained shirt weighed against the likelihood that you will run into someone you used to date at the grocery store.
5. The desire for a latte weighed against the inevitable long wait in line and $4 price.
6. The cost of, and, again, the effort of waiting in line to pay for, a new lipstick weighed against the likelihood that its shade will actually flatter you.
7. The cost and effort of getting your sweater dry-cleaned weighed against the likelihood of being able to wear it one more time without anybody noticing an odor emanating from you.
8. The financial savings, non-wastefulness, and convenience of cooking the meat in your refrigerator weighed against the odds that it will make you sick because it's older than it really should be.
9. The calories in the beautiful cookies at a party weighed against the odds that they will actually taste as good as they look.
10. The physical strain and discomfort of holding it in weighed against the odds that someone will take your seat on the plush couch if you get up to go to the bathroom at a coffeehouse.
11. The desire to take a photograph of your dinner of Ty's Morrocan Lamb for your blog weighed against the likelihood that you will actually get the frickin' camera to work before your food gets cold (I didn't get it to work, in case you were wondering).
12. The effort of clipping it weighed against the probability that your hangnail will catch on your clothing and really, really hurt.
Yours?
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1 Comments:
The effort it takes to make the bed rvery morning versus the volume of my mother's voice in my head.
The joy derived from a baby's cooing versus the headache that will develop from not being able to go back to sleep at 5 am.
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