Dave Plummer

And I was only five, but I was very confused about, A, why you would bring a horse into your kitchen, why you would put a horse up on a planter, and all of these things that didn't make any sense to me.

And obviously, it was a figure of speech.

But for a lot of my life, I took figures of speech as literal, so...

So if I meet somebody, particularly somebody new, and it's my first couple of interactions with them, it's like even meeting you today, then I will go home later and replay all of the

moments where I had choices to make and probably the most uncomfortable ones first to find out what did I do wrong in that moment?

What did I miss?

What was the other person thinking?

How can I improve that kind of situation next time?

And do I need to go fix it or make a phone call?

That kind of thing in a bad, you know, in an extreme case.

But, uh, and that's happened a couple of times in my life.

Like I had a car restored that my dad had bought new in 69.

I still have it.

So we've had a 50 years and about 20 years ago I had it restored and it was like a three year process of craftsmen working on this car for thousands of hours.

And I go out to pick it up and I'm inspecting the car and I'm very impressed with the work and I'm saying, oh, this is nice and this is great and everything else.

And then I fly home and write the check and the car gets delivered.

And then I realized probably 10 years later that I had a whole bunch of craftsmen that had worked on my car for three years.

And I probably should have blown some smoke up their butts, but what a great job they did.

But I never did that because it's not what I wanted or needed in that moment.

And I was completely oblivious to that.