6. The Last-Minute Additions
'Oh and can I just get...' NO, no you cannot. How hard is it to order everything you want in one transaction?? With our collective fingers poised on the last button of a interaction, waiting patiently to banish this persons' presence from your existence within seconds, they decide to add something else on to prolong their placement in your life. It's never anything approaching essential, it's always some perfunctory little trinket that has the personal value of a particularly ardent bit of mud, just as soon to be banished into the amorphous pile of waste everything else of non-daily-usage gets thrown into and forgotten about after the impulse wears off.