Because You Never Know…
Here’s a little known fact about me that you’re all dying to hear.
When seated in public places (coffeeshops, restaurants, offices, etc.) I have to sit with my back immediately to a wall. If I’m working (on a computer) I also have to be positioned so people can’t see my screen.
Clearly I’m not a spy, but if I can’t sit as described I become very self-conscious and a piece of my brain remains focused on my surrounds and keeping my radar up. Consequently I can’t focus, I get all twitchy and irritable, and I’ll want to leave as soon as possible. So I guess if you want my undivided attention, sit me at a wall.
30. August 2008 at 22:46
i don’t care what you say…everyone knows spy’s are liars, that’s how they stay undercover.
1. September 2008 at 22:46
Since there’s no other place to comment on such things, the back-to-the-wall post gets it:
I hope Welcome to the Monkey House inspires some thoughts that end up somewhere we can see them. Vonnegut is great, and this collection is one of his greatest. I wish I had obtained his autograph before he died.
…also…
dear twittering josh, “year yahoo” is a year I don’t want to live. would it kill you to quickly scan two dozen words for typos?
1. September 2008 at 23:31
@meg, civilians can lie too.
@ryan, i’m a very busy guy.
6. September 2008 at 17:12
Same here. My phobia extends continentally, so that it took me years to get used to living in Tennessee. With my back to the Pacific ocean, I was much more comfortable. I guess I could have feared pirates, but I think that they would get distracted by Hearst Castle en route to my house.