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Sometimes I guess we all wonder what makes people "tick".  Barney was one like that--Barney Barnheart.  Years ago, I worked with Barney at a chemical plant in Texas.  It was said Barney slept in a coffin--he lived by himself.  Actually though, he slept in a wooden box coffins came in"bought it from a local funeral home.  Slept warm, he said.  In winter he claimed it cut down on his heat bills.  We do know that wood is a good insulating material.

Barney kept jars and jars of bent nails--rusty and otherwise.  He went to a hardware store and bought a $400 bench vise-to straighten his bent nails.  $400 would have bought a bunch of new nails.

A friend from boyhood drove a fork-lift in a warehouse for a lot of years.  The warehouse eventually went all new electric forklifts.  My friend didn't want a new so they let him keep his old one.  We can all sort of understand this.  We never look down a new road with the same ease an old road brings-not even a forklift road.  Could have been too, Jesse liked the squeal when the lift-lever was activated on the old one.  The nicknamed him "Sideglar Vincent".  You could hear his lift sing out all over the warehouse.

A fellow told about a weird brother-in-law:  "Bob is without a trace of self assertion.  He is intelligent and has an excellent memory.  He is not normal...most of the time he's lost in a haze.  He drifts around working at odd jobs and hardly talks to anyone.  He mostly reads avant-garde stuff and the latest new-age.  In his lucid moments he writes, fills whole notebooks about people live underground, eat dirt and invent question marks which serve as hooks to havng thins on-obviously imitating the stuff he reads.  Here is a case where a genuine belief in God would make a difference," said the fellow during the telling.

Enough about odd people--I'm glad we're all "normal".

Kindest regards.....