Wednesday, August 18, 2010

World's Smartest Man

Forget MIT or Harvard, forget Einstein, Stephen Hawking or even Bobby Fisher, TOR has identified the smartest person alive and he isn't a quantum physicist, he probably can't even spell it. See a couple of mornings per week I go to this cart to get a cup of joe and an egg-and-cheese which is absolutely delicious but that's not what's impressive. See I order the egg-and-cheese on whole-wheat toast with hot-sauce and the guy starts preparing it for me as he sees me walking up. I only had to order it a few times but now he just knows. But that's not the crazy part, this dude working in the equivalent of a 3x3 foot sardine can with a steaming hot griddle, two hot coffee machines and more danishes, donuts and bagels that you can shake a stick at is able to remember everybody's order.

The fat dude with the funny ties gets two bowties and a large coffee with four sugars
The black lady gets a light-and-sweet and a bagel with butter
The guy in the suit with the bluetooth on takes an iced coffee and two eggs over easy on a roll.
The Asian dude takes a glazed donut and an orange juice

It's like a perfectly choreographed dance with no words exchanged and the only sounds being a few good morning grunts.

He must have the orders of 500 people committed to memory, he. Never makes a mistake and is able to give everybody exact change and their coffee just right..

It's like I'm dealing with a combination of the Iron Chef and Rain Man

So I hereby nominate the dude on the NorthEast corner of 43rd and 6th as the world's smartest man......or the winner of the biggest game of memory.
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