Niggifiddles

Niggifiddles come in various  sizes and degrees of severity.  Your classic niggifiddle has an obsessive, compulsive disorder, or some other mental problem that makes them dwell on some insane thing.  A good niggifiddle will always be worrying about something.  Most niggifiddles have to have everything spotless all the time and are obsessed with dirt, crumbs, little strands of hair or anything out of place. Having everything in exactly the right place is one thing niggies love.  A good niggie will notice a crumb on the floor from fifty feet away.  Some niggifiddles love pending disasters.  What about an earth quake? Why not worry about an earthquake?

Kadizzle gets nervous around niggifiddles.  If a crumb were to drop from his slovenly eating it could cause a niggiefiddle untold distress.  Kadizzle's mother in law was a niggiefiddle. Kadizzle would sit down with a glass of water or something to drink.  If he was not beside it for and instant the niggiefiddle would take the water glass quickly back to the kitchen. A niggiefiddle could never go to bed with dishes in the sink.  Jasper Littlebottom has some niggiefiddle disorders.  Kadizzle likes to keep the garage door open when he is working about the yard.  Jasper cannot stand to have the door open, so the door is going up and down all day. 

Every niggiefiddle is different.  Niggiefiddles love a life of order. That means every day you get up read the paper, turn on the TV and try to make the day just like the one you had yesterday.  Anything out of order is a crisis. If the garbage man does not show up on time life is just not the same.

One amazing quality of Niggiefiddles is they can imagine dirt.  A niggie imagines dirt everywhere.  Guarding against dirt is often the most important thing in a niggies life.  There is always dirt, or germs hiding somewhere waiting to get you. Just as niggies make slobs nervous, so do slobs make niggies nervous.  When a slovenly person comes into a niggies house the niggiefiddle is constantly on edge. What will the slob do?  Will the slob take off his shoes? Will the slob put a glass down on the table without a napkin?  Niggies can smell things.  Recently a niggie said her husband smelled. Kadizzle notices nothing, but the niggie said she could detect a bad odor from her husband at some distance.  Strangely her husband is a neat, well dressed man, but according to her he smells.  Niggiefiddles are always paranoid about the air. There is usually something wrong with the air.  One must always be on guard for bad air.

A good niggie is constantly on the look out for that magic thing out of place.  Stoupini came in the house with a leaf that fell from his shoe.  An ordinary person would not have noticed it for days, but the niggie was right on it.

Something is not right or something is going to get me.  If we could only stay in our cocoon life would be so much better. There is always a wolf at the door.