Sitting at Caribou, a man came in and sat a table near me. He moved the chair just right, put his folder down, placed a napkin on the table, laid a stir stick on top of it, adjusted the stir stick and put it back on the napkin. He got up, ordered a cup of coffee, straightened the condiment shelf, moved the stir stick, placed his coffee cup on the napkin. raised both pant legs and scratched both shins in unison, opened up his folder, took out a document out and started reading it.
While his behavior looked a little excessive, I'll bet he got WAY more detail out of the document than I would have gotten. In fact if someone depended on that detail, I would rather he be combing the document than me.
It reminds me that we all deal with our idiosyncratic behaviors that help us cope with life. We all have strengths and weaknesses and if somehow we find uses for our strengths we muddle through and make a life for ourselves.
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