Persnickety indeed!

Elsewhere it has been suggested that your humble host may on occasion be a bit "persnickety". Let us then examine the definition of this term, to wit:

per·snick·e·ty ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-snk-t)
adj.

1. 1. Overparticular about trivial details; fastidious.
   2. Snobbish; pretentious.
2. Requiring strict attention to detail; demanding: a persnickety job.

It is only in the unfortunate, and one hopes temporary, situation of one having taken leave of one's senses could one seriously apply such a denotation to yours truly. Certainly a desire to alphabetize one's neckties by brand (for example, Dolce & Gabbana precedes Forzieri which precedes Villa Bolgheri in any civilized closet), or a wish to arrange one's soups by label color (the aggressive reds of any Campbell's forming a gentle gradation into the warm saffron of Healthy Choice Split Pea and Carrot) on the shelves of a pantry that wished to be worthy of the appellation pantry instead of, say, pigsty, or a simple request of the postal carrier to have one's personal letters dropped into the box first, then the bills, then the magazines, then whatever advertising material he/she insists on including (a discussion in which has been engaged numerous times with more than one local postperson, often at decibels of sufficient level to awaken sleeping babies in apartments many floors above...all to no avail, might I add. Your tax dollars at work, my friends), or any other desire to maintain a level of decorous order should hardly bring such a nomenclature as "persnickety" raining down on one's carefully manicured psyche.
The very idea.