On allowing yourself to tic

and beep with the best of them

How do you react when you hear that awful incessant screeching, safety beeping?

You know, the one I mean, that sound you hear when large commercial vehicles back up. Or if you spend any time at a big box building supply store the forklifts always seem to be calling.

There was a time when I found those sounds excruciatingly irritating. But as a RemarkableFool, I have developed a different approach. Now I sing along. It’s fun to use the beeping to establish a rhythm then add to it. These days my trips to the big orange behemoth sound like a choir of engorged cats wailing along to Syncopation for the Modern Drummer.

Yes.

People stare.

Deep down?

I want to tell them it’s “International Day For Pretending You have FUCK! Tourette’s.” Instead?

I merely blink and twitch.

That stops the staring super fast.

How can you take something that you absolutely despise, something piercing, irritating and whinier than a flock of Harvard freshmen and delight in engaging with it. Imagine doing this to the poi…