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[which_chick]

I like it when I do things that need to be done and bystander tells me that what I have done is wrong or bad or shoddy or less-good or wrongheaded or otherwise NOT PERFECTLY IDEAL like bystander would have done things.

I really like it when this same bystander, informed of job X that needs to be done, completely agrees that job X needs to be done, tells me that job X will be done first thing, soonest, right away, Real Soon Now... and then does absolutely nothing about job X for six months (actual calendar measurement, not exaggeration for humorous effect) aside from assuring me that it's on the To-Do list and a prioritized action item that will receive individual and craftsmanlike attention to detail so that it will be truly and permanently and perfectly solved in a way that I am unable to even fully wrap my mind around.

And when, after six months of waiting (and gentle monthly reminders to bystander about the urgency of job X as well as several rather dangerous and exciting incidents caused by job X NOT BEING DONE), I have thrown up my hands and actually completed job X to the standard that I told bystander it would be done to back six months ago when bystander and I were first discussing the urgency of job X... then I like it BEST OF ALL when bystander gives me an itemized rundown of how piss-poor a job I did and how much better bystander would have done job X if I'd just had the patience to let bystander get around to it, which bystander was totally going to do this upcoming weekend before I went and RUINED EVERYTHING with my hamfisted efforts at problem-solving.

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[which-chick.livejournal.com]

I like also when bystander thinks I need to do things differently. Because, yo, the way I do everything is wrong.

Say, for example, that I am going to go cut free bamboo in Dillsburg to use for jump fill. Let's say that I am going tomorrow morning. Tomorrow night, then, the bamboo (which is free) will be at my house, being made into jump fill.

However, since bystander is, at some indefinite future point in time, quite probably going to cut down some bamboo in Maryland, bystander feels that this future perfect bamboo should obviate my trip to Dillsburg tomorrow to get real, definite, immediate bamboo tomorrow. It is bystander's considered opinion that I should totally wait around on the future perfect bamboo from Maryland that will, I am assured, be promptly cut "this fall" by the same bystander who couldn't manage to do job X (took all of half an hour, by the way) in a six month window.

Y'know, I ain't waiting around for that.

[not-your-real.livejournal.com]

"bystander" totally looks like it should be the name of some ancient Greek in a myth.