Previous Additions to the German Lexicon
…When you do something thinking you will save yourself doing something you don’t want to do, but then forget that you were smart enough to do that and wind up creating more work for yourself, because you just did the thing you didn’t want to, so as to remember that you did something “smart” with the thing you wanted and now you must do it in addition….
e.g.
Guy 1: “I put my manila folder on the outside of my bag so that I could get to it without unbuckling the bag, Once I did that I remembered I’d put the folder in the convenient side access flap instead, so then I had to buckle the bag back up and then open the access flap to get it.”
Guy 2: What a total hossenfeffer.
February 27th, 2007 at 6:31 pm
furnichtsschwergemacht
March 9th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I want a word for when you are working on doing something, and then someone comes in and chews you out for not doing it, so that then it looks like you only did it because you were browbeaten.
My current word for this cannot be expressed in a professional environment.
July 18th, 2007 at 11:01 am
It should be something using the components of
not
guiltily
done
work
that
was
coming
moments later
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmmmmm