I used to think I was a people person until I spent some time around them. Now I find I get along much better with cats, wild animals, impersonal natural forces and inanimate objects.
Not that I don't try to solve people's problems for them as best I can. People are all right. I just don't invest a lot of personal warmth in the outcome. Still, the service they get from me will always be reliable to the best of my ability. Once they're out in the field they will value the precisely chosen or repaired gear they got from that crusty churl in the shop more than some ill-matched piece of industrial flotsam provided by that charming fellow they'd love to invite to dinner.
I can be antisocial and still be socially responsible.
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