He never even came close to running out of . . . anything.
A pack-rat, sure. But more than that he was a planner. He was a thinker. He would map out the most efficient route to take to work every morning before he left. Always turned his mattress over. Flossed, dusted, and tidied up every corner of every space in his perfect little apartment. Hospitals were not this clean. He's the kind of guy you'd look at and try to picture his name. Some people you look at and think, "Jeff? Thomas? Rob? Bill? Gary? Steve?" And other people you look at generate totally different sets of names like, "Milton? Marvin? Milhouse? Murray?" For some reason names that begin with the letter M have increased nerd potential. Let's throw in "Stuart?" and "Walter?" for good measure. Either way, if you saw him, you'd immediately look toward the second set of names.
He ate bran flakes.
Living like this doesn't usually attract a lot of friends. So understandably, he grew lonely from time to time. Rather than go and spend an evening at a bar, park or social restaurant, he would stay home and look through different chat rooms on his computer to try and find someone to talk to. Someone who shared his interests. Someone who understood him. Someone who knew what to think when they saw eighteen gallons of Windex stockpiled in the laundry room. Insane? No. Prepared.

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