At a breakfast meeting once, I used honey to sweeten my coffee. I did not want tea, I wanted coffee a little sweet and did not want to use sugar so I used honey. Should be simple enough, wouldn't you think? It wasn't. It was another five — ten minutes before we moved on to the formal agenda. The five — 10 minutes was spent discussing the fact that most people use honey in their tea, not coffee.
It is interesting how quickly people spot anything out of their norm. It goes to show just how much we've been trained to follow certain paths such that any deviation from what is generally accepted as normal is immediately spotted and questioned. The deviation is not only seen as different; it's seen as unusual. I think "different" is a word we use to politely denote "wrong" or even "abnormal" in some instances.
