No meal without stains on the blouse? Then you are probably very intelligent!
Yes, I am a confessed mess. At work there is always a spare blouse ready and also at important outdoor appointments I take for safety's sake always something to change with. Sometimes I feel like a preschooler with a change bag, but I do not care. Because I'm the one who manages every time, to tilt the sauce over the bib, with pink shoes accidentally sink into mud puddles, to lean against freshly painted railings or stand exactly under a blackbird with digestive problems. In the exact right moment. Naturally!
The beautiful, white wedding dress
By the time I had doused my snow-white wedding dress with gravy at my wedding, it was finally official: I just can not manage to finish a day without spot-intensive treatment. I was okay with that until then. But since that day everybody knows it in the sense of EVERYONE. "Naaaaa, how at your wedding, what?" I can not count how many times I have heard this sentence while trying to rub cherry juice, red wine, pesto or soy sauce out of my clothes with a wet piece of paper. We should not have invited so many people to the wedding! Not really! But fine, it's the way it is: since I'm married, it's out. I am a blob. Since forever and forever. The fact that my husband is thoroughly a controlled perfectionist with the body control of a Shaolin, does not make the matter inconspicuous.
There is a scientific explanation for the Klecker gene
But what others consider to be a weakness is actually a clear indication that I'm smart. There's a pretty plausible explanation for the inability to get through life unharmed (or at least through a single meal). The magic word is called Feedforward and describes the ability to perform motor actions that fit the task. For example, when you raise a spoon, the brain automatically estimates what force to use to lift the spoon at the optimal speed without spilling the liquid on it. People who have a problem with feedforward are often very smart. Or to put it in the words of author Steven Johnson: "The more disorganized your brain is, the smarter you are." Clever people are often unfocused or mentally busy with more important things than the weight of soup spoons. This exhaustion of capacities then has an effect on brain performance in everyday things. That's how it is!
Somehow stupid anyway
However, this capacity distribution is not really a great achievement in the end. For while others rest their brains in the evening or feed it with Tolstoy and Goethe, we have to talk to Dr. Ing. Rumble Beckmann's speckle devils. Exactly eight there are forty types of stains, although I have to admit that I know many more species. I thought about retraining and talked to dr. Beckmann as an expert to promote. But then I did not get to keep busy with it. Had to put on my spare blouse and save my keyboard. Had blown away the coffee. Was just busy with more important thoughts.
