Schatzung - Estimate

Estimating time is not a strength of mine. Things always seem to take far longer than I think they should. Whether this is down to an inaccurate estimation, or just my general ineptitude causing things to get held up, I’m not certain. Most people probably know by now that an Andy five minutes generally means ten. If I’m to be somewhere, meeting someone at their house or the pub, and I’ve known about it for hours and hours in advance, I still find it impossible to leave the house on time. I’ll often be ready to leave early, but for me that’s just as annoying as being late. In the back of my mind I’ll be thinking that getting there ahead of time is just a waste, and that something productive could have been achieved in those five or ten minutes. So I’ll decide to start backing up my computer system, or engage in some other not exactly pointless, but hardly pressing task that I’m convinced can be done within an Andy five minute period, inevitably causing my reputation as Mr Punctual to be substantiated further. It’s the same with my initial estimate at the start of this project - these pieces were to be written within ten minutes. Then I had to lamely issue a disclaimer stating it’s more like thirty because time was passing far too quickly. Time flies when you’re struggling to be even vaguely funny, I suppose. Which may go some way to explaining why I never finished any of my essays for written exams at A Level. Since then, I discovered that middle-aged markers don’t really find masturbation and rape jokes that hilarious. But still, picturing the look on their faces when reading about such filth brings a swift smile to my face, and that’s all that matters.