I swear that some folks I work with believe in their heart of hearts that my teammates and I spend our days randomly futzing with the configuration of things. They encounter a behavior they don’t expect and–boom–“why did you guys change $THING?”

$THING has remained unchanged ever since we set $THING up for $SPECIAL_GUY. Nothing has changed. Nothing.

Except that it is about half an hour later than when $SPECIAL_GUY interrupted me in the first place. But at least I know that $SPECIAL_GUY now understands that time is linear and that an event watcher cannot retroactively watch for an event in the past. Well, at least I hope $SPECIAL_GUY understands this. I’m not holding my breath however.