Fandango’s Flashback Friday — June 9th

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Wouldn’t you like to expose your newer readers to some of your earlier posts that they might never have seen? Or remind your long term followers of posts that they might not remember? Each Friday I will publish a post I wrote on this exact date in a previous year.

How about you? Why don’t you reach back into your own archives and highlight a post that you wrote on this very date in a previous year? You can repost your Flashback Friday post on your blog and pingback to this post. Or you can just write a comment below with a link to the post you selected.

If you’ve been blogging for less than a year, go ahead and choose a post that you previously published on this day (9th) of any month within the past year and link to that post in a comment.

This was originally posted on June 9, 2017

Got a Second?

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Don’t you hate it when you’re right in the middle of something, especially when that something requires a certain amount of focus and concentration — like finalizing a report your boss is expecting by the end of the day or a paper that has to be handed in first thing in the morning or a blog post you’re close to wrapping up — and someone walks up to you and asks, “Got a second?”

When that happens to me, my fantasy response would be to say, “Sure, I’ve got a second.” Then I’d glance down at my watch, look back at the person who interrupted me, and say, “Oh sorry, time’s up.” Oh snap!

Sometimes I want to respond, “Are you blind or merely oblivious?” Seriously, can’t this person see that I’m busy working on something very important?

Even if the interrupter asks me if I’ve got a minute, rather than a second, by the time that individual explains what it is that he or she has so rudely interrupted me to ask or discuss, the minute is usually up.

But if I say no, I don’t have a second — or a minute — I’m the bad guy, right? I’m the one who is labeled as uncooperative, unhelpful.

Yet if I miss a deadline because I tried to be cooperative and helpful, but that “second” I was asked for turns out to be way longer, then it’s my ass that’s in a sling, not the ass of the guy who asked me if I’ve “got a second.”

So yeah, I hate it when someone asks me if I’ve got a second. Because it never is just a second … or a minute.

Am I being too literal?

23 thoughts on “Fandango’s Flashback Friday — June 9th”

  3. newepicauthor June 9, 2023 / 6:15 am

    There are a lot of people who seem to be totally oblivious, unaware or not concerned about anything but themselves.

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  6. Carol anne June 9, 2023 / 9:12 am

    I’m with you! I hate being interrupted! It is so irritating!

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    • Fandango June 9, 2023 / 1:18 pm

      What a shame that this still exists today all across the country.

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  12. ghostmmnc June 9, 2023 / 1:53 pm

    This is a problem sometimes for sure. I get in the zone, as they say, and it is so distracting to get interrupted. 🙂

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