How our minds are subservient to our bodies.

You would like to listen to this person but that bloody ingrown toenail, I must have it seen to.
I want to impress her at lunch but what do I do with the stones in these olives, how do I get rid of them
gracefully? I really would like to break wind but not here, not here.

I would like to listen to her but this bloody splinter in my thumb ti had been there for ages - can't get rid of it.