The just leaving it without taking so much as a bite like it’s no big deal is as hard for me to believe as the spread itself. On the face of it, it shouldn’t be, after all it’s entirely plausible and narratively sensible that the character doesn’t have time and technically it only reinforces the ludicrousness of the giant meal on a weekday morning but, if I was late in the morning but also someone had cooked me pancakes and bacon and eggs with orange juice and coffee and all these cafe breakfast dishes altogether on the table like that then work is just going to have to wait. I’m not spurning pancakes for anything.
The fact that it’s daytime outside always bothered me too. My parents were always rushing us out the door before the sun was up. Maybe in the spring but even then it wasn’t full daylight outside like in these scenes.
The just leaving it without taking so much as a bite like it’s no big deal is as hard for me to believe as the spread itself. On the face of it, it shouldn’t be, after all it’s entirely plausible and narratively sensible that the character doesn’t have time and technically it only reinforces the ludicrousness of the giant meal on a weekday morning but, if I was late in the morning but also someone had cooked me pancakes and bacon and eggs with orange juice and coffee and all these cafe breakfast dishes altogether on the table like that then work is just going to have to wait. I’m not spurning pancakes for anything.
I once had a manager tell me “If you’re late, but you haven’t had breakfast, be later”
If you work a taxing job (mentally or physically) you gotta have a calorie store
The fact that it’s daytime outside always bothered me too. My parents were always rushing us out the door before the sun was up. Maybe in the spring but even then it wasn’t full daylight outside like in these scenes.