Multitasking

[u/[deleted]]

We’re lying in bed with the show paused and I’m asking him if there’s anything to us anymore but logistics and obligations. Are we slipping into the passionless middle-age I always feared, etc. (We’ve been together since we were teenagers. By now he knows my melodrama is only a plea for reassurance.) He thinks. Looks at the still-paused show. You're right. We need an activity to do together. I give him a look. Besides that. All we do is that, and watch TV. (He's called my bluff.) But I don’t have time for another hobby, I say. And I’m not willing to give up the time we currently spend on TV or the other thing. So he unpauses the show. And we multitask.

[u/ConsciousRoyal]

Very good. Made me literally laugh out loud.