OBSESSION
He awoke. He looked at his numerous clocks, all of which said 5:30 AM. He performed his obsessively precise morning routine: shower at 5:34, breakfast of two eggs over easy, two pieces of lightly buttered white toast, and two pieces of bacon, slightly crisped at 5:53, and out the door at 6:02.
As he walked the 37 steps down the sidewalk out to his dull green car, he thought to himself:
"if they ever realized these server eccentricities about time of mine, I am surely done." Nevertheless, he reassured himself that such a thing could never happen.
As his outstretched hand was…
