I have a problem with being too indecisive. If you ask me a yes or no question, 40 percent of the time I'm not going to give you a yes or no answer. Even still, the other 60 percent of the time when I actually do answer your yes or no question I'm going to stumble all around trying to find a way out of actually giving a decisive answer. My whole life I've been like this. It's because I desperately want your approval and I'm petrified of rejection.
But this drives people nuts. If you tell me you the last movie you saw and you loved it and then ask me if I liked it, I'm probably going try to find something I did like about it (even if I hated it) and say "it was alright."
This is a quality that gets on peoples nerves. At least when someone says they hated the movie you know how they felt.
Sometimes I get frustrated because members ALWAYS want the same thing. Day in. Day out. One man comes in every day at lunch and wants the exact same thing. A bowl of soup (doesn't matter what the soup is), three packs of saltines to go with that. Fish. A cup of fruit. And sweet tea with no ice. And when he runs out of tea he says, "can I get some more sweet tea, no ice?" He says that every single time like I've got the ice scoop in my hand ready to dump a whole load of it into his precious tea. Also, I don't care if we bring this guy Gorton's fish sticks or grilled Mahi with some amazing chutney. He doesn't care. He just wants fish. Yes it's repetitive. Yes, it gets really old. But this guy knows what he wants and to be honest, I think a small part of me may be jealous of that quality.
Just this morning I stopped at a Starbucks in Winston to grab a cup of coffee on my way back from Wilkesboro to Chapel Hill. I almost had to give up my place in line because I couldn't decide between the Bold and Pike's Place roast. It takes me several seconds to choose a bottle of water when I'm in line at Whole Foods. Both roasts at Starbucks are basically the same. Doesn't really matter what kind label the bottle has the water really tastes the same. I just worry too much about what people might think based on these little decisions. Anyway, this is a roundabout way of me saying, "I'm working on it."

On a completely different note. I'd like to endorse Randy Newman as a songwriter. He obviously doesn't need my recommendation but what I like about the guy, is that it doesn't really matter which song you listen to, I doubt the man has ever been asked "Can you tell me what this song is about?" They are straightforward. He is the quintessential "storytelling songwriter."
Today I had "Living Without You" I put on a mixed CD I burned. The first part of the opening verse is incredible.

The milk truck hauls the sun up/
the paper hits my door/
the subway shakes my floor/
and I think about you.

Unbelievable.