Do you know this funny story?

It’s a fairly common (probably apocryphal) funny story about forgetfulness… and untidiness, too, I guess.

It’s a story about a person who starts to do one thing, walks into another room to look for a tool or object in order to accomplish that simple task, notices something else out of place, so starts to put that away, then gets sidetracked… and so on and so forth throughout the day. By the end of the story (the end of the person’s day, in fact), much energy has been expended, but the original thing has been left undone, and none of the side projects was ever completed, either. Entropy has increased.

I know I’ve seen it on the Internet, and more than once, too. But my searches for it are coming up empty right now. So if you have a good version of the story, or a link to it, I’d sure appreciate that.

And never mind the irony, thank you. I have five other things that I should have gotten done ahead of this, but it just occurred to me.