stackyFACTSIf someone asks for a moment of your time, you are legally allowed to walk away after a minute and a half. Medieval timekeepers divided the solar hour into forty moments. It means all those times you promised to be ready in a moment, you were drastically overestimating your own efficiency. You owe people a lot of backlogged time.
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