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After I wrote about routines on Friday, a reader reminded me of Don Gorske, and he in turn reminded me of Curtis Brooner.

“Who?” you might ask, quite reasonably.

Let’s start with Gorske, who made headlines a few years back for eating his 30,000th Big Mac, at a McDonald’s restaurant in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin.

They had a ceremony for him and everything. Do the math, and it turns out he’d eaten at least one Big Mac—often two or more—nearly every single day, dating back to the Nixon administration.

Even Michael "Jim" Delligatti, the franchisee who invented the Big Mac to begin with, said he ate no more than one a week. But Gorske, a retired prison guard who said he had both “obsessive compulsive disorder and a meticulous memory," skipped only eight days in 46 years.

Those eight days included:

• once because an intense snowstorm left him physically unable to reach the restaurant, and

• once on the day in 1988 when his mother passed on—which I suppose was a nice tribute, in a way.

A Big Mac has tw…