AT LAST, JUSTICE!

My apartment mate detailed how Chinese people all seem to have neurotic tics, and went into great detail about it, talking about recent events involving people to whom she is related. Which was fascinating. She had to wonder how on earth the Chinese had been around for so long. The cumulative effects, surely, would have caused them to decrease in number?
Neurotic as all git out. Nuts.

Okay, Inside I'm laughing my head off.

Years ago when I had asked for a particular size of paper bag at a local bookstore for my purchases, so that I could fold it over exactly, with perfect, crisp, straight creased lines and ninety degree angles, she looked at me like I had all my screws loose. How on earth was I so neurotic? Were ALL people from the Netherlands like that? What on earth was wrong with me? And how had we survived so long, and conquered half the planet?

Especially when all anyone had to do to flummox us and bollix our evil plans would, probably, be to hang a picture fractionally askew, with a dab of superglue under one corner of the frame so that we could not possibly straighten it, and would waste hours trying.
We were neurotic as blazes, plain and simple.
Tics coming out the ears.

For years afterward she would bring up how I had demonstrated what needed to be done, just ever so, and had a little satisfied gloating smirk on my face like a happy toad upon completion of the task. There! A perfect fold. Mmm! Beauty!


Well okay. I was trained as a draughtsman. We're thrilled by straight lines and perfect angles. Why couldn't she, who had been tops in her classes for algebra and geometry, appreciate that? This is normal behaviour; we Dutch are, as everyone should absolutely recognize, totally normal. One hundred and ten percent angularily ninety degreed perfection.
We go up to eleven. One more than ten.

So it was with great pleasure that I heard that her tribe are stark raving bonkers.
We're normal, they are not. It's been conclusively proven.
Normal, normal, normal, normal.
Normal.


Hah!



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