The reason that is true and also does the job

You postpone on a reason that is genuinely true, and you have started noticing that true is the kind of cover you have been using all year.

He got in at eight, filthy and cheerful, ate an enormous amount of pasta and was asleep on the couch by half nine with the dog on his feet. There was no version of that night where you woke him to show him three lines. All of that holds, and the holding is exactly what makes it usable.