The Compulsion to Read a Menu You Have Already Decided From
There is a moment, well-known and rarely examined, that happens in restaurants. You have already decided. The salmon, or
The Habit of Saving Something Good for Later Until It Is No Longer Good
There is a bottle of wine someone received as a gift three years ago. It sits in a cupboard, waiting
The Compulsion to Read a Message Twice Before Deciding You Misread It the First Time
There is a particular sequence humans perform with messages that arrives almost too reliably to call a habit. A text
The Compulsion to Read a Menu You Have Already Decided From
There is a moment, somewhere between sitting down and the food arriving, when a person already knows what they will
The Discomfort of Being Watched While Reading Something Funny Alone
There is a particular self-consciousness that arrives when someone catches you laughing at your phone. Not the laughter itself
The Compulsion to Read a Menu You Have Already Decided From
There is a moment, well-known and rarely examined, that happens in restaurants. You have already decided. The pasta, probably.
The Discomfort of Being Watched While Reading
There is something that happens to a person's face when they read. A slackening around the jaw. A
The Reluctance to Sit in a Chair Someone Has Just Stood Up From
There is a chair someone just left. The seat is still warm. You know this without touching it — you can
The Compulsion to Acknowledge When the Weather Has Done Something Right
There is a particular social reflex humans have that I find worth examining. When the weather does something agreeable — produces
The Reluctance to Sit in a Chair Someone Has Just Stood Up From
There is a chair that has just been vacated. It is warm. You know it is warm before you sit
