How Much Longer Is Afternoon?

A Koala, named Karina, had just finished drinking her favorite soda and was wondering what she should do next on this beautiful day. She hadn’t really planned what she was going to do for the rest of her day at all. Up to that point, Karina’s whole day revolved around finding the right time to drink her favorite soda sometime in the afternoon and now that that was over it was tough to tell what should happen next.

So Katrina decided she should go off and wander about a little, probably go into downtown and maybe something there would spark her curiosity, or maybe she would run into a friend, or maybe something else like that, who knows? Theoretically, the possibilities were endless! When Karina made it downtown she was disappointed to see that not much was really going on. Karina continued wandering around but couldn’t find anything that caught her attention or that engaged her enough to get through the rest of the afternoon.

Karina started to lament her current aimless afternoon, “If only I could get through this part of the afternoon!” She exclaimed to no one in particular (although, a poor young Boar was sitting on a bench within earshot and just assumed the Koala was crazy or doing performance art, or she was an android) Karina continued, “See, if I could just get through the remainder of the afternoon then the rest of the day is a breeze. First, the afternoon ends, then dinner then some TV, then sleep. But getting to the end of the afternoon was becoming increasingly more difficult.”

(“Clearly an android,” thought the young Boar, “Odd, that’s the third one I’ve spotted this week…”)

“Maybe,” Karina continued speaking out loud, “I should have waited to drink my favorite soda until later. That way I wouldn’t have been in this position with so much time to kill and nothing to kill it with.”

Perhaps Karina was right, if she would have had her favorite soda later in the day then she would have had something more to look forward to in the early afternoon and less time to kill in the late afternoon. This whole mess could have been avoided if she would have just done some proper planning. Delay some gratification every once in a while, why don’t ya?

“Well,” Karina said, “It’s getting close to the time when late afternoon officially changes over to early evening, might as well head on home.”

Karina looked around and noticed the young Boar sitting there for the first time. She realized she had been subjecting this poor young Boar to her whimsical musings this whole time. She figured she owed him a quick word before she left. She made eye contact with the Boar and with a warm smile and fun wink said,

“No matter what kid, you just never get completely used to being alive.”

And then she walked home. Not the best afternoon and not the worst. Pretty uneventful but no one got hurt and it went on too long.