Oh yeah, scanning the piaget's overview I saw "recognizing an object's permanence" in the first stage, but I didn't see anywhere that said "all items and situations are for a limited time only." Like if I ask you do you want to see a movie I mean now, not next week. Or, you should try to eat your cereal pretty soon after you add the milk.

Youth lives by personality, age lives by calculation. -- Aristotle on a calendar