The purpose is that there is no purpose … well, kinda. I’ll explain.

It doesn’t matter WHAT the tasks are, just that they are fairly detailed, redundant, pretty ridiculous and take up a little time and then one of 3 things happens:

1. You read my post and muttered to yourself that I’m completely full of it and are sitting on your couch thinking how dumb I am.

2. You read through my post, thought about it, read it again and thought, this lady’s full of it but I wanna know WTH the point is.

3. You read through my post, thought about it, read it again, furrowed your brow and said, “I’ll try anything.” So, you read through the instructions again to make sure you’ve got it all in your head and you proceed onto the exercises.

Now complete, you’re replying to my post, inquisitive and wanting to know how that seemed to help. Well, even if you didn’t do anything but read my post, I’ll go out on a limb here and say it would’ve made you feel better anyway and for several simple reasons. The detail in the tasks stalled your current thinking and made you focus on something else (grey shirt, wet, water everywhere). That you actually completed the task took your mind away much further in that you had to follow all the directions, wonder why in the crap you’re dumping water a foot from your sink, and then having to clean it up. Your mind is elsewhere and you are safe.

BTW, are you still holding the ice?