The Pharmacy Queue

≈ 6 min

Read the monologue below carefully. Your job is to identify (a) the single cognitive distortion the speaker's reasoning shows — or decide there is none — and (b) the exact phrase in the text that signals it. This is a logic puzzle, not therapy or advice; the speaker is a fictional character.

The scene

A busy high-street pharmacy on a weekday morning when the speaker is already running late for work.

In the differential

All-or-nothing thinking
Fortune-telling
Emotional reasoning
Overgeneralisation
Catastrophising
No distortion — a reasonable reaction

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This case first aired on August 6, 2026. A fresh distortion runs every morning — same rules, five minutes, one solution.

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