The jobs at the bottom of your ‘To do’ lists always stay there and never get done

You are referring , of course, to all those jobs you’ve been meaning to get round to for ages  –  like getting your wife down from the up-and-over garage door?  The nation is deeply divided on the list issue: there are those who make lists and those who don’t. You see list-people wandering around Sainsbury’s or B&Q clutching scraps of paper muttering to themselves. ‘Making detailed shopping lists and then always leaving them at home’ (Pauline Hacket , Southend) is common quot within this group . When this happens, say in supermarkets, list-dependents tend to echo the behaviour of Non-list customers whose practice is to hold up the checkout queue while they disappear back  into the aisles to round up items they’ve just only remembered .

(See also ‘There’s always one thing you’ve forgotten every time you get home from the supermarket’. (Millicent  Babcock,  Bagshot) .  As regards chronic job-listers , their tendency is to spend all their jobbing time writing out  new ‘To Do’ lists .  ( Such people also have notice-boards in their kitchens with nice cork backs and lots of those pins with coloured blobs on the end which the police use on maps to track the movements of the Yorkshire Clothes-line Pinger.)  The reason that items at the bottom of the list stay there is that the things at the top breed .

DIY quotsters are already all too aware  that ‘Every job you undertake always creates other jobs’ (Merv Axelrod , Humberside) so the faster they work through the list the longer it gets, and the things at the bottom sink further and further down .

(Clive Trembleigh , Penrith) - QQQ**