The attentive person has mental checklists, which contribute to keeping the mind active and flexible. And only if they are neurotic to the point of anal or obsessive are there acronyms and mnemonics. I am as you know not anal or obsessive. So nothing rhymes or sounds neat.
Pills, coffee, pipe smoke. Coffee again, shave, shower. Get dressed. Front door keys and lighter, work keys and coins less whole quarters in pairs so that the laundry money increases by half dollars. Four pipes, pouch of pipe tobaco, pill container refilled and into pipe box, box in bag, throat lozenges, ear twiddly, bus card, extra smokeables and teabags, check burners on stove. Teevee room off, kitchen, bedroom, corner light in hallway, and bathroom also off.
Did I forget anything? Lock the door behind me, walk to where I catch the bus.
Count driverless taxis, tykes, bums, dogs, and regular faces en-route.
See? Not obsessive. Just well-ordered and logical.
Then I check for work keys and bus pass again.
Go over the entire list mentally.
Re-remember my pills.
Continue count.
This is all normal and well-ordered. The disorganized person rushes out the house in a mad panic, then remembers that he or she left the stove on and the water running.
The only thing that's missing is a sound breakfast, which they tell me is the most important meal of the day, and must not be missed in the well-ordered American Protestant universe, it's sinful. Bacon, eggs, bowl of porridge, hashbrowns, orange juice, fruit, and coffee.
That's all a bit much. I'm not surprised most people are idiots for half the day. Their guts are draining all the oxygen rich blood from other parts like the brains and demanding all the attention.
Caffeine, nicotine, and highly refined sugar.
That is quite sufficient.
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