Today, I sat on a tour bus with my Co-Founder & Part Time Intern, Stephen, outside the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin.
While waiting, we observed (quite possibly) the most inexplicable thing either one of us had ever seen.
A man, spinning a pen around his fingers as he walked along the sidewalk next to the bus, accidentally dropped his “fidget-pen.”
Without bending over, he stopped dead in his tracks, looked up into the heavens, sighed heavily, and closed his eyes.
Then, he reached down to pick his pen back up as he continued walking. Unfortunately, he stumbled, kicking the pen a few inches without actually grabbing it.
Nope.
He was not in the mood today.
Not having it.
Yet again, with straight legs, he froze in place, looked back up into the heavens, exhaled heavily (almost growling), closed his eyes, and threw his hands up behind his head in exasperation.
Finally, taking his sweet time this go around, he slowly bent over, grabbed the pen, and cautiously stood back up. Noticing that a bus full of foreign tourists was staring at his misfortune, which had now doubled after his stumble-incident, he was filled not with embarrassment, but with anger.
He looked the bus over, up and down, left and right. Then, he put his hands to his sides (as if he were unholstering a firearm), and whipped them both up with great flamboyancy, exposing both of his middle fingers. His physical expression of profanity was directed towards every square foot of the bus, as well as towards every passenger in it.
Then, he walked on his merry way.
I’m still not sure what was going through this poor man’s head, but (oh boy) would I like to know.
Maybe, don’t spin pens around your fingers when you walk. Then, maybe you won’t drop them and become a rude shmuck.
Instead, when you walk, focus on WALKING.
Until next time,
Michael J. Erickson, CEO & Co-Founder
