A six-week solution: Confined to quarters

Texans speak colorfully. I once had an East Texas-born editor who, whenever faced with some bureaucratic hurdle she didn’t look forward to leaping, would drawl, “I’d rather be pecked to death by ducks” than deal with whatever paperwork or other pettiness that stood in her way.
Americans in general, and not just Tejanos, hate to sweat the details. We are especially resistant to ministerial red tape rolled out by government — sorry, guv’mint. Unlike, say, Italia