Every Freaking Time

The eternal time warp of debugging. Left side: bright-eyed optimism at 9 AM with colorful IDE and hydration station ready. Right side: same developer, 14 hours later, staring into the void of Stack Overflow with what's probably their 17th cup of coffee somewhere off-screen. The "easy bug" has now consumed an entire day, three meals, and whatever remained of their sanity. Time is merely a social construct when you're hunting a missing semicolon.