>dinner is done
>announce dinner
>everyone shows up 10 minutes later
Some of the food is cold because I didn’t cover it, but why should I? It would have been fine if they came to the table when I announced dinner.
>next day
>dinner is almost done
>remembering yesterday, I decide to announce dinner 10 minutes early so that 10 minutes later is “on time”
>everyone arrives to the table immediately, remembering that it was cold yesterday not wanting that to happen again
>mfw
Wouldn’t that be nice!
Hot take:
Every time I see a Doctor Seuss parody that doesn’t respect the very strict meter that made his stuff flow so well, it’s always followed by about five minutes of me trying to fix it and then stopping because that was supposed to be the author’s responsibility. You can sneak in an extra syllable here or there, and there will be situations where it’s ambiguous based on word pronunciation, but any more than two syllables off and you should’ve workshopped it some more.
Take all of these matters most seriously
The gravest of grave should be clear
To step out of meter where any could see
Will only get side-glancing sneers
And who, then, shall patch up this unfinished road
Assembled with half-baked word stones?
'Tis not my intent but I think it’s best flowed
With a concrete from Onceler’s old bones
Ass Claction?