Multitasking Mayhem

By Jim Hagarty
2016

I am not a big fan of multitasking. I do it, but I don’t like it. Nothing seems to get done right when three things are being done at the same time.

It can also get you into trouble. I know people who drive down the road with a full McDonald’s meal spread out on their lap. Yikes. How long does it take to eat a burger and fries? Is there no time to accomplish that while the car is sitting still?

Take this woman in Texas, for example. She was caught drinking and driving – two separate activities – when she crashed her car into a police car.

Oh, and she was topless Snapchatting with her boyfriend at the time too.

Too much, too much.

Whenever I want to nude Snapchat, which is about once a week, I pull the darned car into a parking lot, get my business over with, zip and button back up and then start the car again.

Isn’t that what everyone does?

I am going out on a limb here and making the unscientific observation that women like multitasking more than men do. Or at least they are usually better at it.

I once saw a woman feeding a baby, chatting on the phone and composing an email at the same time.

Oh, and that child was being breastfed.

At least there was no Snapchatting involved.

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.