Greetings, writers—
Please consider the New Yorker cartoon below, which inspired today’s prompt.
Now write a scene in which your character really ought to be concerned about something truly important but is instead fretting about the details.
The scene could be comic (e.g., worrying about what your stomach looks like when you’ve been abducted by aliens), tragic (say, obsessing about the flower arrangements at a beloved spouse’s funeral), or anywhere in between.