A despisal of the tipping culture in the US (okay, completely unrelated) and some extreme tiredness prompts me to quote the following from Malcolm Gladwell's "The Tipping Point"

Yawning is a surprisingly powerful act. Just because you read the word "yawning" in the previous two sentences - and the two additional "yawns" in this sentence - a good number of you will probably yawn within the next few minutes. Even as I'm writing this, I've yawned twice. If you're reading this in a public place, and you've just yawned, chances are that a good proportion of everyone who saw you yawn is now yawning too ... Yawning is incredibly contagious ... if you play an audiotape of a yawn to blind people, they'll yawn too.

Any yawners out there after reading this?


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