Twiddling Thumbs

Yaxlich has just got back from the vegetable soup place where he saw a man twiddling his thumbs. He doesn't think he's ever actually seen someone do this before. He thought it was just one of those sayings that didn't mean anything but this man was actually twiddling his thumbs. He was standing in the queue to see the nice Sikh gentleman and had his hands clasped together as if in prayer. To begin with that is what Yaxlich thought he was doing. He thought he was praying to God and asking Him to somehow cover up the fact that he'd been working all week and that he was actually a Taxi Vader. Then Yaxlich noticed that his thumbs were twiddling. First they twiddled clockwise and then they went anti-clockwise. It was fascinating to watch a thumb twiddler in action. Yaxlich almost hopes that he doesn't get a job between now and January because he wants to go back to the vegetable soup place and capture this on his video phone so that he can share it with his readers. Twiddle. What a sadly underused word. Yaxlich thinks that he will try to use it wherever possible.