A dentist office slows time to a crawl. Forty five minutes in a dentists chair lasts almost a life time, in fact a root canal procedure takes almost as much time as it took to build the pyramids. Dentists should use a calendar to time procedures.
A day at work, even if you love your job, is a lengthy proposition, dragging on, passing minutes hammering away at your will to live. But, a weekend is over almost before it begins. As soon as the final bell tolls on Friday sending you home, whistling all the way, you have to hit the snooze button.
But, it does not end there. Assuming, for example your work day is divided between tasks, some of which are more enjoyable, some less, and most work days are cut along these lines, then part of your day will go painfully, slowly ants marching inexorably back to the nest, other parts will drag almost to a stop, tar covered turtles carrying bricks up the side of a mountain.
The same is true of the weekend. For example, tonight Louisville plays Kentucky in the Round of Sixteen (the Sweet Sixteen) in the NCAA basketball tournament, one of the biggest sports rivalries in existence extending into the post season. This is a huge game, and the winner will move to the next round (the Elite Eight), and they will get there by defeating their hated in state rival, and the loser will go home, to stew in inconsolable misery, and doubt themselves, and everything they have ever believed (sorry about your luck, Kentucky). This is the biggest, most venomous rivalry since the Aliens and the Predators squared off in Alaska, thanks to those pesky kids... (oops sorry about the sports rant, and the Scooby Doo reference).
Anyway, that game will be so intense and enjoyable it will be over before you can finish your bowl of chips, but installing that new heating element in the oven will take about 15 minutes that will last about two and a half hours.
All we are asking is equity. Unpleasantness is part of life, but it should be compensated for, if you have to carry out difficult work that seems to last all day you should be allowed to leave when it is finished. If part of your weekend is so pleasant, and entertaining that it shrinks hours into minutes, you should get a little extra weekend, right off the top, on Monday morning, preferably.
When man first devised the method to track time, things were brutish, life was short and times were difficult. Keeping track of how long it took was just a way to avoid thinking about how awful things were. Now we are more sophisticated, we have taken so many steps to improve life. It is time to "improve life."
With that in mind we are starting the "Life Explained Equitable Passage of Time" movement. Please sign below to help us push this through. We suggest you not use your real name, in case the time police decides to squash our puny little revolution, they are everywhere, you know? In fact, you might want to use an important, intelligent sounding name, we suggest Einstein, or Aristotle, something people will notice. "Well, if da Vinci thinks it is a good idea, so do I."
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