A group of studens prepare the project for presentation which is due today by 7pm. By 11:49am last member (let’s call her Elaine) posts her part (a Word file, 45 pages of double-spaced text) on discussion board for other people to review. She’s unemployed, so she finished the whole thing in the morning and posted as soon as she’s done.

The events unfold as follows:

11:49am Elaine: Guys, please review the file and let me know what you think.

12:14pm Kym: I think I can’t review the 45 page document while at work, that’s what I think!

12:35pm Ron: Can’t do, working…

12:59pm Elaine: Come on, you can spare 20 minutes of your time to skim the paper!

1:23pm Ron: Negative, working…

1:33pm Kym: Elaine, we are all at work, some people don’t even have time to check the board, not to say review the paper

1:39pm Elaine: Why don’t you want to take a look, it’s only 20 minutes. When I was working I could always spare 20 – 30 minutes…

1:43pm Vic: And remind me again, why are you still unemployed?

As I was walking to make connection from green line to the yellow line on 14 Street – Union Sq I noticed a stand that sold books about stress management. A guy stopped me and offered free stress test. Behind him I noticed a beautiful young lady sitting at the desk with books and apparently either selling or giving free advice.
– Do you want to get a frees stress test?
– No, but I would like to schedule a date with the cute girl behind you.
– That’s my wife, I doubt she would be interested.
– See, that’s the problem, you can’t get any good stress these days…