Killing-Time Choice

A Killing-Time Choice is a conscious, short-lived, time-bound, singular negative time passing choice to perform a time killer.

• AKA: Time Killing.
• Context:
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• Example(s):
  • Killing time while: waiting for my bus; during my evening commute; ...
  • Watching a TV Show at Home, such as an old Gilligan's Island TV Show.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Long-Lived Passing Time Choice, such as a hobby choice (such as birdwatching).
  • a Coasting Life Choice.
  • a Binge-Watching Choice.
  • a Doing-the-Harder-Thing Choice.
  • a Forced Human Choice.
• See: Passing Time, Waste Time, Mindfulness, Bad Faith, Addiction, Just One-More Turn Decision.

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References

2015

• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kill_time#Verb
  1. To spend time doing nothing in particular in order that it seems to pass more quickly.

     She had nothing better to do, so she went to the bowling alley to kill time.

     • 1989 She's up there now, thought Bella, up in that freezing studio, killing time till the child comes home, mooning, dreaming, turning disjointed thoughts over in her head, and we'll pay for it. — The Green behind the Glass, Adele Geras, Lions Teen Tracks

1996

• (Feyerabend, 1996) ⇒ Paul Feyerabend. (1996). “Killing Time: The Autobiography of Paul Feyerabend." University of Chicago Press.

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