I do suspect it's my sex rearing its hind-brained head at me. I have entire days, where any attempt to escape this just makes it worse, by causing me to panic and despair.
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My husband is the precise opposite.
Give him a list of 5 things to do and leave him alone for 5 hours and he'll be found working out a treatise on the most-efficient way to accomplish the first item, replete with a whiteboard diagram with lots of excited arrows and the mysterious mechanical beginnings of a "take out the trash" automaton.
You are quite the wordsmith. Great snapshot there 🫡

(Surreptiously hides something behind a curtain)
Now, where were we?
Yes, that's terrible, I wouldn't know anyone like that :p