Awareness

"Awareness" has become kind of a post-modern term. Being aware of your psychological make-up... being aware of the needs around you... however, there are still a LOT of people out there needing a lesson in awareness.

There's a guy I work with who has absolutely no social awareness. This has happened on several occasions, but it just happened again this morning so it's on my mind. We have staff meeting every Monday morning with all 300+ employees. If you come in late, it's always a little awkward because it's quiet except for whomever has the floor - typically our president. So, he comes in today about 10 minutes late. He plops down in the back row - I'm about 3 rows up and can clearly hear every move he makes - and lets out this huge, congested sigh. About 75% of the people within my sight-line turned. Then, he attempts to get out of his huge Mossy Oak look-alike jacket completely taking out the nice ladies he has crammed himself between.

Just as you're thinking, "Thank God... he's settled," he pulls out breakfast. After obnoxiously unwrapping his gas station sausage biscuit, he begins eating... mouth closed, breathing through is nose with a whistle in one nostril and an obstruction in the other. Very pleasant!

After the initial feelings of disgust and nausea, it hit me that he just really did not have a clue of the ruckus he was creating. Completely unaware! I know you know people like this!