The Anything Guy

 I am the anything guy. So, when I got to a bar with a friend and the bartender asks me what you would like to have, my instinctive response is ‘Anything’. But after experiencing awkward looks from the bartender few times, I have realized that I need to be more specific. So, I wait for my friend to place his/her order and then blurt out, “The same one for me”. I can drink whisky, I can vodka, I can drink beer and I can drink rum as well. I am not averse to drinking anyone of them and is not in love with any of them, so I struggle to be specific in such cases. Perhaps, that explains why I hate shopping. That requires you to be lot more specific: Sir, what kind of jeans are you looking for? Straight fit or Slim? Bootcut or wide? mid-rise or low rise? ripped? Faded? My response “Anything which you think would look good on me”. I am sure customers like me are the dream customers for those shopkeepers. They can sell junk from their store to me without me protesting about it. No wonder, when I had to buy a car, I went for the same model which one of my friends was using. For a guy like me the cost of search while buying something is too much. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I hate those questions about favorites: Which is your favorite color? Which is your favorite food? Which is your favorite movie? Which is your favorite car? Which is your favorite vacation spot? The list goes on and on.

At work, ‘the anything will do guy’ has both advantages as well as disadvantages.  While you could be termed as flexible and adaptive guy who can work on anything, you are likely to be pushed around to the work who no one else wants to do. Working on a variety of stuff, gives you the width of knowledge, but hoping around from one thing to another, does not provide the depth of knowledge. This ‘anything will do’ attitude is so much ingrained in me that if someone asks me, would you like to have sex with a man or a woman, my response will be “Hmm, anything will do!”