[Peter has devolved over the years into the kind of savage animal that eats pizza in the shower. He knows he's a lost cause.]
The sunk-cost fallacy is when people invest effort or money into something, reach what they think is the point of no return and keep investing in the thing even though they're accomplishing nothing. They don't cut their losses when they should.
[He stuffs his face with more sandwich, mustard dripping down his chin.]
I'm just putting forth the idea, up front, that certain people - like perhaps myself - might be a lost cause, far beyond the skill of these people teaching etiquette. Which means if we have to do any bowing and dainty napkin arranging, that absolutely anybody else but me will need to take point.
[Basically, now that he knows this world has a lot of etiquette nonsense he plans on commandeering the efforts of more polite people to pave over things for him.]
[Peter is not just slobby; he's aggressively slobby. It's not like he's proud of it, he's just very set in his ways and not being slobby takes a level of energy far beyond what he's able to expend.]
Re: ( prompt iii. )
[Peter has devolved over the years into the kind of savage animal that eats pizza in the shower. He knows he's a lost cause.]
The sunk-cost fallacy is when people invest effort or money into something, reach what they think is the point of no return and keep investing in the thing even though they're accomplishing nothing. They don't cut their losses when they should.
[He stuffs his face with more sandwich, mustard dripping down his chin.]
I'm just putting forth the idea, up front, that certain people - like perhaps myself - might be a lost cause, far beyond the skill of these people teaching etiquette. Which means if we have to do any bowing and dainty napkin arranging, that absolutely anybody else but me will need to take point.
[Basically, now that he knows this world has a lot of etiquette nonsense he plans on commandeering the efforts of more polite people to pave over things for him.]
[Peter is not just slobby; he's aggressively slobby. It's not like he's proud of it, he's just very set in his ways and not being slobby takes a level of energy far beyond what he's able to expend.]