Minutes from the Nail Clipping Deadline Review
The nail clipping task has been available for six days and becomes urgent only in the last four minutes before departure.
Meeting: Nail Clipping Deadline Convened: Approximately four minutes before departure. Purpose: Emergency grooming review. Previous opportunity: Six days ago.
Background:
Nail clipping deadline has been accumulating since last Tuesday. The nails became eligible for clipping on approximately Thursday. Nothing happened Thursday. Nothing happened Friday. The weekend passed. Monday passed. Tuesday again.
Today, while putting on shoes, subject noticed nails. The noticing was not gradual. It was immediate and final.
Discussion:
The clippers are not in the bathroom. Subject searches bathroom. Clippers located in bedroom. Subject returns to bathroom with clippers.
Time remaining before departure: three minutes.
Subject clips. One nail clip lands in the sink. One lands elsewhere. Subject elects not to investigate.
Status: Task partially completed. Estimated remaining time required: ninety seconds. Remaining time available: two minutes.
Governing Rule: Under the applicable standard, if nail clipping deadline can be fixed later, later retains jurisdiction until the last practical minute. Four minutes before departure constitutes the last practical minute.
Action Items: Subject will locate clippers and return them to the bathroom. This has been the action item since March.
Adjourn: Subject is now late.