The Champion, The Energizer, The Discoverer
Del is either the best or worst travelling companion you could have, depending on how you look at it. If you need a quiet night’s sleep, or a clean bathroom, or a working vehicle, then no go. If you need an indefatigable ally on your side to get you to end of your journey no matter what disasters befall you, he’s your guy.
Oh, and of course you’ll get some quality shower curtain rings out of it.
Dominant Function: (Ne) Extraverted Intuition, “Conceptualize From the Experience”
As Del repeatedly tells his new buddy Neal, he likes to go with the flow. He believes he’ll always find a way to get where he’s going somehow. When one door closes—or a flight gets cancelled—Del just turns in another direction and takes a new path. “Like a twig on the shoulder of a mighty stream.”
Del actually has quite the gift for metaphor. “We’d have more luck playing pick-up sticks with our butt cheeks,” or “You’d have more of a chance of finding a three-legged ballerina,” are just a couple of the colorful comparisons he makes in conversation.
Del’s job is selling shower-curtain rings, and when he and Neil end up robbed and broke, he goes on a sales streak at the airport, improvising wild tales about the exotic origins of his “jewelry” in order to pick up a few extra bucks for dinner.
Of course, Del’s gift for gab gets him in trouble, too. He can’t not talk, and this rubs his reserved travelling companion the wrong way. Like many an Ne-dom (or even an Ne-aux—hi, I’m an INFP!) Del struggles with closure, leading to lots of pointless conversational rambling that makes Neal nuts. Continue reading