I wish, I hope, I bargain. If this happens, I will do this. If I can stay awake through this shift, I will sleep in tomorrow. If I can run one more block, I will stop at the end. If he will call me, I will stop being such a crazygirl.
When I was very young and didn't understand that what I was doing was masturbating, it elicited feelings of extreme guilt and shame. I would bargain with God (because I was in Christian school) that I would stop doing that if he would help me pass this test, endure an awkward social experiment, or whathaveyou.