They don't understand

[aball321]

I like fiddling. It's something I do when I'm not doing anything else, a reason why I usually have to have my hands in my pockets, because they feel odd out in the open and not doing anything. I think it's also the reason why I hate mechanical pencils: They don't survive my fiddling. I take them apart and put them back together a few times and they

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I think it must be hereditary

[bemildred]

I've always done that. It drives people crazy. It drove my family crazy when I was growing up.

I do it with ideas too, but there's something about fiddling with something mechanical to get your mind moving in different directions. I get about half of my good ideas when fiddling. The other half I get in conversations with other people. Almost never do I get good ideas just by sitting and thinking.

Think of it as an ancestral curse, or maybe a family legacy. Take your pick.