I am a bit of neat freak. But it's only a symptom of my general anal retentiveness, which manifests itself in myriad ways. Today, for example, I went to the neighboring Cosi for lunch to get their very good "country ham and brie" sandwich.

First off, I could see that the ham they used had those little white clusters of fat spread throughout. Now, that is gross to begin with, but if those clusters happen to contain anything cartilaginous in substance, I usually gag. So that was a bad start. Then the next foodservice-worker put the brie on the ham before closing the sandwich. There are three slices of brie. Well, instead of spreading the three slices along the length of the ham, in thirds, she clumped the whole thing down, no rime or reason. The ham and brie content per square inch was dramatically irregular. WTF? She probably voted for Bush.

I mean, come on!