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Show Coffee Drinkers Preferred Page 18 of 307 times. Some things that we are told are bad for us actually are not so bad after all. But smoking: I can't understand why people do it. "You wondering how I can sit here in the prime of my life and foul my air with all this smoke?" Wow. Well, he was obviously not in the prime of his life but his guess' was so close to what had been going through my mind that I was shocked. "Remind me not to play poker with you." "I can read people. When you've been doing what I've been doing for as long as I've been doing it, comes in handy to know what people are thinking." "What? Was I pinching my nose like a -little girl and wincing?" I figured if I'd been read, the only thing to do was to joke about it. "No, but there are muscles around people's eyes that react involuntarily to their environment. Light. Smell. Let's say someone you don't like enters your room. Each one triggers a different facial expression. Something on your face told me you were trying to adjust to something permanently stinky." "You saying I gotta bad mask?" "Not at all, Nephi. Your mask is actually better than most. So good in fact I bet you spend most of your time hiding out. There's something in you you don't want anyone to see." |
