Don’t Be “Mayonnaise Stan”
Nov 4 · 7 min read
When I was a young archaeologist, I had the misfortune to work on a crew with Mayonnaise Stan (name changed to protect the weird).
Mayonnaise Stan was an unusual individual, but we’ve all run across someone similar I suspect. He was young — fresh out of college — and awkward in a way that was painful to watch. But not in an endearing sort of way. That sort of person usually ends up under the wing of someone or a group of someones as a kind of mascot or something.
No, Mayonnaise Stan was creepy. I think relating how he got his moniker (archaeology is full of…

