Case in point:
I remember when I would drop my son off at his grade school. Like a few other parents, I walked my child to his classroom by carefully maneuvering down a crowded hallway filled with the morning squeals of the soon-to-be educated.
At the start of his second year, I noticed one set of parents that brought their child to school and, for some reason it caught my attention that they always had their travel cup of coffee in their hand. This stymied me. True, they were the first, and, if memory serves, the only couple of parents who never entered the building without a cup in hand, thus they stood out to Aspie me. Plus, it was a practice that I had never witnessed previously.
This propelled my thinking. We're they worried that their coffee would get cold in the car if they had left it in its comfy, specially made for such a purpose cup-holder? Was their need for caffeine so overpowering that the thought of being without it those 5 to 10 minutes that it took them to wrangle down the hall left them sad or distressed in some way?
I could not find a reason that anyone would do such a thing, carry a hot liquid into a school, and navigate a crowded hallway with beverage in hand.
I mean, it appeared that all the other parents managed to get their kid to the classroom without a cup. Somehow, this couple was different. And I could not figure out the reason for their uncommon action.
To this day, it was a nonsensical act that they purposely engaged in each and every time they brought their child to school whether it be summer, winter, rain or shine. If they were in that hallway, they had cup in hand.
Strange
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