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Someone made a post on tumblr how some days “making coffee” is one step, and sometimes it’s 14.

I wrote up a similar list based on my experience of taking out the kitchen trash…
Good day:

1. Take out the trash
2. Put new bin liner in the trash bin

Regular day:

1. Take trash outside
2. Double-check which of the curbside bins it’s supposed to go in, and put it there.
3. Find roll of empty bin liners of correct size
4. Put new bin liner in

Bad day:

1. Go to the kitchen
2. Try to remember why you went to the kitchen
3. Repeat 1-2 a few times, until what your brain spits out is “take out trash”
4. Pick up your keys so you don’t acidentally lock yourself outside
5. Take trash outside
6. Double-check which of the curbside bins it’s supposed to go in.
7. Make sure you won’t drop your keys in the curbside bin along with the trash
8. Drop trash bag into correct curbside bin.
9. Go back inside
10. Forget about the bin liner
11. At a later point, try to put something in the trash, but find the basket liner-less.
12. Put trash on kitchen table.
13. Turn around to get a bin liner.
14. Repeat 10-13 a couple of times. Trash is accumulating on your kitchen table.
15. At SOME point (probably because you really need some space on the kitchen table), get the roll of bin liners in the appropriate size, and put one in the basket.
16. Put the roll of bin liners back where it belongs, or you’ll never find it again.
17. Maybe you’ll remember to collect trash around the kitchen and put it in the freshly-lined basket. Maybe it’ll be enough that you might as well take out the trash again...

Between 1 and 17, several days, in extreme cases several weeks, may have passed…