It's three times worse than you thought......
First off, thanks to Bungallow for this blog topic. He posted a Roosevelt quote the other day, My Future is in the Past, that whetted my appetite for some existential thought.Please forgive my writing about myself in the third person. I do realise that I'm not 'The Rock'.
Patrick had to work pretty early today. He started at 8 o'clock, which meant getting up at some ungodly hour to catch a bus. Given that none of the Patricks are exactly morning people, they always tend to get up at the last possible moment. It would, therefore, have been extremely helpful if Past Patrick had at least ironed a shirt for him. No such luck!
Present Patrick, frustrated in his pre-coffee funk, had nothing but distain for his former self. Basically, that moron, Past Patrick, made Present Patrick late. Present Patrick didn't even tell his boss the truth. Embarrassed, he covered for Past Patrick with some hastily put together untruth about a traffic jam.
You see, Present Patrick is basically a good guy. Naive, perhaps, but good. He tries his best, he wings it, he blags it, he finds a way.
But he's constantly getting screwed over by Past Patrick. They're like chalk and cheese. Past Patrick is relaxed to the point of out-and-out laziness. He's a poor planner, and his reputation for self restraint is even worse!
Take last night for example: going to bed at 2am when he knew Future Patrick had work in the morning. I think he even knew he hadn't ironed that shirt, the malicious rotter.
When's Past Patrick going to stop screwing Present Patrick over and think of Future Patrick for a change?
Comments (45)
Cheers!
It´s only 8 hours by train from Barcelona to Murcia and with your 3 bottles of vino tinto this should keep you going, no?
How could you charge the poor girl 10 euros for some grammar explanation that I was going to give her for free?
Here you'd only get to sniff the cork for a tenner...which incidentally is enough to get me 0.2g of alcohol per litre of blood as a newt.
Muak!
You just did exactly the right thing at exactly the right time to hand me a key to the doorway I've been looking for.
What's interesting as well is that Present Patrick thinks that Past Patrick doesn't do the right thing at the right time and sabotages him.
My experience of Past Patrick is the exact opposite.
So, what's the difference?