The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

chris_m

LydiaJ wrote: »

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Graham-Smith

He's Aged P's first cousin. I met him at Aged P's sister's 90th birthday party 6 years ago.

Aha, I was wondering if we could be related to the same one and, hence, related - but yours succeeded mine in the post.

PS - watch out for PN, she's probably already assembling a PA for you too, what with him being a KB too :rotfl:

Cakeguts

Pyxis wrote: »

I think sometimes it's just that some people have never had to do it, never thought about it, so just need to get habituated to it, like anything else, really.

There's also the the problem that if someone never uses an analogue clock or watch, they might not be too sure which way round the hands go, anyway!

I am 60 now and I still can't always remember which way the hands go round. I have a processing problem with directions. So door handles, watches, clocks, screws, right and left, anything with direction really. You learn to get round it. I also have really really poor coordination but very fast reactions.

chris_m

Cakeguts wrote: »

I am 60 now and I still can't always remember which way the hands go round. I have a processing problem with directions. So door handles, watches, clocks, screws, right and left, anything with direction really. You learn to get round it. I also have really really poor coordination but very fast reactions.

Just to confuse matters, you can buy clocks which go "backwards" - i.e. with 3 at the 9 o'clock position, 9 at the 3 o'clock, etc.

Perhaps it'd be safer to go with deosil and widdershins (or tuathal)

PasturesNew

chris_m wrote: »

PS - watch out for PN, she's probably already assembling a PA for you too, what with him being a KB too :rotfl:

Oh Lydia's been on the list aaages.
She's behind you though, unless new information comes to light.

Jackmydad

Cakeguts wrote: »

I am 60 now and I still can't always remember which way the hands go round. I have a processing problem with directions. So door handles, watches, clocks, screws, right and left, anything with direction really. You learn to get round it. I also have really really poor coordination but very fast reactions.

I never have any trouble with clockwise, anticlockwise, and I think that spending years "on the tools" gets rid of any confusion about which way things unscrew when they're upside down etc.
I do occasionally have a bit of trouble with left and right though.

PasturesNew

Cakeguts wrote: »

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I bet you score highly on the ASD Scale... I am seeing some traits and behaviours sliding in....

Cakeguts

There is a local estate agent shop near me here where one of the estate agents can't park a car. She doesn't seem to be able to judge where the back of the car is. So it looks like no concept of anything behind her seat. I have no idea how she passed her test without backing into something?



Anyway I expect you are wondering how I know that the particular agent is a she. Last week I think it was she parked the estate agency car across our drive with our van in the drive so effectively parking us in. We needed to get out. An email was sent to head office asking them to contact the office in question to get the lady to move the car. In the meantime the parking enforcement people were called to issue her with a ticket. Head office took their time. In the meantime I went round to the estate agency office and on approaching the door was met by a lady rushing out. I asked her if she was the person who had parked the car and told her she had got a parking tickets at which point she rushed on faster. Too late by then the car had already been across the drive for more than an hour time enough for a parking ticket to be issued.



She moved the car to a parking space around the corner where the back was about a 6 inches across another drive and the front had plenty of space for her to move into. So basically a big space and she had parked all down one end of it with the back of the car over another drive.



A couple of days later. Same car same parking space but now with the back of the car about a foot over the drive and loads of space in front.



It has now become a game of spot the awful parking of this estate agent lady. This car is too big for her. She needs one with only two seats and no boot at the back. The boot and engine need to be in the front because she has no concept of "behind me."

chris_m

Jackmydad wrote: »

I never have any trouble with clockwise, anticlockwise, and I think that spending years "on the tools" gets rid of any confusion about which way things unscrew when they're upside down etc.
I do occasionally have a bit of trouble with left and right though.

Left-hand threads can catch people out though.

I remember when I was a Scout leader, one of the latest intake (a very pleasant lad usually) came back for a weekend camp and told me in the most accusing tone he could muster, "You gave us a left-handed gas bottle" :rotfl:

Cakeguts

Jackmydad wrote: »

I never have any trouble with clockwise, anticlockwise, and I think that spending years "on the tools" gets rid of any confusion about which way things unscrew when they're upside down etc.
I do occasionally have a bit of trouble with left and right though.

I played the horn for years. It is a left handed instrument but if you asked me which was my left hand when I wasn't holding it there would be a pause while I worked it out.

chris_m

Cakeguts wrote: »

It has now become a game of spot the awful parking of this estate agent lady. This car is too big for her. She needs one with only two seats and no boot at the back. The boot and engine need to be in the front because she has no concept of "behind me."

We had a lad at work like that, except he had little concept of "beside me" either so he could never get it completely in only one marked bay.
We came to the conclusion that he never parked a car, just abandoned it :rotfl: