A new counselor arrived for her first day on the job with a family planning clinic that was run by a very strange, extremely demanding older nurse whom her staff secretly named "Big Nurse" after the character in "One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest". Big Nurse began reciting a long list of responsibilities and complex policies in her abrasively patronizing tone, interspersed with harrassing comments and embarrassing personal questions. After 15 minutes, the young woman politely excused herself, turned and exited the clinic while removing her new white clinic smock, draping it on a chair near the door in one unbroken motion, while her brand-new boss stood stunned into speechless astonishment. The newbie went to a pay phone in the lobby and phoned in her resignation to HR.

Afterwards, none of us could remember her name, but we often spoke fondly of the "15-minute person" who demonstrated such amazing powers of perception that we all wished we'd possessed.