Thing that make you go hmmmm.

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8. People get

"trained" to a method and will become nearly robotic to it. Many years ago I knew a very bright fellow from Florida (yes I know) and we spent a few weeks together during the summer just kicking around together.

One day we stopped at McDonalds for lunch. It was busy. Before we got to the counter he said told me to watch what he did and what resulted. His turn in line came and all of the employees are scurrying around back and forth and instead of talking to the cashier he told a worker scurrying by behind the counter to get him a soda. The result was chaos.

The poor kid reacted with instant confusion and stopped in his tracks with a "What?" sort of response and a dumbfounded look. This stoppage instantly broke the flow of movement of all of these others who were scurrying about and they began bumping into each other and trying to get around each other. That only added to the mayhem.

It did settle and my friend gave the cashier his order. But it was clear how the "robots" were disrupted by the simplest of things. The flow was broken even if just momentarily. We had a good chuckle and discussion about it later. To other people who knew me they thought I was spending a "lost summer". This fellow knew a great deal about many things and I learned throughout our couple of months of vagabond friendship. I could do with some more "lost summers" like that.