I was going to post that as the alternate answer.
But now I have not excuse for why I wasn't able to get up to take the trash out.
If you had, I would have said the answer was:
Two - one to climb the giraffe and the other to fill the bathtub with brightly colored machine tools.
You were caught in a Schrodinger’s Cats 22 situation.
parsy, whose wave function has collapsed