Multitasking

Of all of the catchy buzz words that get bandied about "Multitasking" takes the prize for saying a complicated thing in an ununderstandable(mutipurpose compound word for illustraiveistic reasonabilities) manner. Ah, but multitasking, something that your mother always had to do, is in vogue.

   The mmwait,gearupforitbecauseit'sallgoingtohitallatoncemmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmore you do, the more you get done, unless you get overwhelmed and burn the casserole and leave the peroxide in your hair too long and the garden hose if floating away all of the myriad of pricey hybrid iris, gladiola, tulip and clammitia bulbs you just planted early this morning in the nice loose expensive loamy soil you bought down at the garden center for twenty bucks a cubic foot but at least the baby is quiet, but you can't find your keys because you were talking on your cellphone when you pushed the garage door opener button and drove in, got out of your car and the baby was crying so you jingled the shiny keys and the baby stopped crying snatching the keys out of your hand.

   You do it all by rote, push the garage door opener, don't even need to think about it, lock the car,  lock the unlocked kitchen door after you walk in with an armload of perishable groceries, put the casserole in get on the gloves and put the step one of your hair color in, load the washer, feed the cat, You did the early morning chores in your garden but you left the garden hose on dropped off the baby at infant care went to work for nine hours running errands during lunch picking up the dry cleaning locked the baby in the car with the keys in her hand locked yourself out of the house when the door from the kitchen to the garage slammed behind you. You smell the burning casserole or is that your hair?  You're locked in your garage because the button for the overhead door is inside. Your husband will be home soon but you can't call him because your cell phone is on the kitchen table. You just want to cry, right?

Has multitasking ever had the effect that the more you tried to do at the same time the less you got done... Well?