This afternoon I realised that it takes me four minutes and 29 seconds to peel a satsuma. That’s over 31 minutes a week, which is around 1,631 minutes a year… otherwise known as 27 hours.
It has come as quite a shock to me that such a block of my time is dedicated to one of my five a day, and it has had me wondering how much time I waste on other humdrum tasks.
Five minutes more wasted and I have come up with this little list.
- Trying to get rid of pins and needles – 260 minutes
- Hiccuping – 312 minutes
- Stifling a yawn – 60 minutes
- Proofreading my text messages – 1,820 minutes
- Figuring out the meaning of an emoji – 60 minutes
- Trying to decide if I want sugar in my tea – 260 minutes
I hope you can understand why I am keeping this post short. I’m off to invent some time-saving, multi-tasking techniques.
NB If you think my satsuma peeling time is excessive, it’s because I have a fear of the straggly white bits.
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I don’t even know what satsuma is, so I’m perfectly unprejudiced against your peeling it 😉 I think I get your point though. It’s scary but probably unavoidable. And I just realised you’re using the same category name as I, “Monday Muse” – so here’s to satsumas and alliteration!
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Haha, it’s a very small version of an orange! How funny, I hadn’t realised, great choice of category name 😉
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This counts as random, but I really wish I could peel an apple in one go.
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When you have an inclination towards sometimes being a bit weird (as I do), the randomness will out. But all the good stuff is in the apple skin! 😀
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I wouldn’t want you any other way. I don’t know how to describe your blog to others which you should take as a huge compliment 🙂
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HA. I will certainly take that as a compliment, THANKS!
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I hate the straggly white bits on satsumas too. I spend hours stripping them off.
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Yes! Someone who understands 🙂
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It’s compulsive. I have that with Kiwi (Fruit, of course) where I don’t want to lose pulp and it must be peeled with wafer thin peelings 😦
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You’ve hit the nail on the head (without bending it, in order to create the neatest, compulsive-friendly nail ever hit).
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You proof read your text messages? You proof read your text messages? She proof reads her text messages.
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One of my pet hates (and also another time wasting activity) is having to decrypt text messages from certain people who don’t ever read them back. It’s maddening.
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I love your blog! Weird to think how much time we spend on the little things.
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Thank you! Yes, and it’s amazing what you discover when you start thinking about it. Such is life I guess.
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~to decide if i want sugar in my tea is a problem fr me too xD
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Straggly white bits. That explains it.
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Hehe, yes I thought I’d better account for the ridiculous time scale.
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Fun exchange thread. I love pealed fruits and I too proof my text to make sure I’m not cussing someone out inadvertently – or – that I am! Not much of a tea drinker – I prefer wine (no sugar added).
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Thanks Leslie! Haha, that’s another thing I find dangerous with texts, not only the accidental typos, but the punctuation, it often goes misread, and I’m sure has lead to many an argument! I can get on board with the wine drinking, and I’d happily consider it as a tea replacement 😉
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