About a rake handle

There's something quite annoying about needing to use something that you find is broken. A broken rake handle can be managed in lots of different ways:

• Use rake with a short (broken) handle (0min)
• Quick and dirty Duct Tape wrap (2min)
• Go to the store, buy a new handle and replace (~30-40min)
• 'Splint' around the break with scraps and Duct Tape/Glue/Screws (~10-15min)
• Find alternative tool like a garden fork and use that, remembering to harass flatmates into fixing things they break (~5min)

But there are other considerations to be made also. For example, today is a Public Holiday, so maybe I should be drinking in the sun rather than working in the garden? Also, that means the Placemakers store literally across the street from us will be closed. The garden fork handle is as short as the broken rake handle. You have so much spare crap in the garage 'because this will be useful someday' that maybe you should be cleaning the garage. Duct Tape, although useful in most manifestations really does represent a type of laziness typical of convenience-craving. Peanut M&M's are in the kitchen. Where are they? I should have some.

The brain rapidly works 'down' the list of things that I could do about the rake, and then rapidly works 'up' the list of barriers to each and the options of resources available for an attempted fix. Instinctively, internal monologue takes over and moves through various scenarios. "Drilling fiber glass? No thank you. Google open stores and then jump in the car and go...? Yeah..naaahhhh... Steal the shovel handle - you have two. Yeah but round and square mouths are both useful for different things. Splint it. But that'll be a pain to use and end up messy and I KNOW it will splinter into my hands. Splint from the inside...? Just take apart the 'spare' clothes rack - one of the 10-odd metal poles is bound to fit inside. Like a glove." It lied. "Like an old glove" it reassures, as the pole slops around inside the broken fiberglass.  I wonder if that justifies it being too big or too small. Duct tape fills all gaps.

And the raking resumes.