OBSESSION He awoke. He looked at his numerous clocks, all of which said 5:30 AM. He performed his obsessively precise morning routine: shower at 5:34, breakfast of two eggs over easy, two pieces of lightly buttered white toast, and two pieces of bacon, slightly crisped at 5:53, and out the door at 6:02. As he walked the 37 steps down the sidewalk out to his dull green car, he thought to himself: "if they ever realized these server eccentricities about …showed first 75 words of 704 total…

…showed last 75 words of 704 total…morning and noticed that for the first time in his life, he had woken after the sun, and that he had no clue what time it was. He decided that on this first day of his new life, he would not take his car to work, but take the bus. He walked to the nearest bus stop enjoying the scenery along the way. The beautiful day surrounded him as he nervously glanced at his watches.