This is the second of 13 short autobiographical parts in the publication, Naked. In it, Sedaris recounts, in vivid and funny minutia, the obsessive compulsive demeanour that inundated his life from degree school into college. From licking every lightweight swap came across, to counting each of "six century and thirty-seven steps" on the way dwelling from school, "pausing every couple of feet to tongue a mailbox" and having to retrace his steps if he lost enumerate, Sedaris was compelled to " . . . manage ...