Mopping is a skill - part two

There was a 1986 movie called Gung Ho, starring Michael Keaton as a shop foreman who works for an American car manufacturing plant that is bought out by a Japanese car company. Along with his Japanese counterpart, played by Geddes Watanabe, (who has been sent to deal with the Americans as punishment for previous perceived failures), his job, is to enforce the new Japanese-style work policies among his American co-workers and must mediate the clash of work attitudes between the Japanese management and American labourers.

One of the volunteers, "A", the one who gets frustrated about my lack of mopping ability, is a very good cook and can chop vegetables unbelievably fast. I think that "A" regards my speed (or lack thereof) in the same way the Japanese employers in Gung Ho regard the American assembly line workers. It amuses me to no end and I'm tempted to rent the DVD. I'm getting faster slowly - if I try to go too fast, I get sloppy and it would really slow things down if we have to take me to the hospital for stiches or finger reattachment.