Worked with a couple guys throughout the years that didn't know the marks on a tape measure.
Have them measure something and they would say 27 and 5 of those little marks! True story.[/QUOTE
mrs johnr is terrible with direction. Such as the house to the west of us, she will say, "you mean Josh's house", or some such similar type direction.
Look to the south at all them nice antelope, she will always look over her right shoulder, regardless of which direction that is. Not that she has a bad math mind, or cant read a tape, just cannot sense direction at all. Go into the basement, which is a walk out, and she doesn't know which direction she is looking going out the basement sliding door.. Its some sort of twilight zone shit..
My wife is the same way with directions. We have lived in the same house since 1990. Looking out the back patio door the sun rises to the right and it sets to the left. She doesn't understand that looking out the patio door she is roughly looking north.
I don't fault her for it though. Some of us are just wired differently and see things with a different perspective.
When we are driving somewhere I always have to remind myself that N S E W means "nothing" to her - even with the sun shining . . .
She quite often comes up with more intuitive comments on something that needs fixing around the house than I ever will.
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Most of Liberal Teachers now couldn't do the times tables, they can't even tie their shoes
I was out hunting the other day and had to re-tie both my shoes.
But I know multiplication tables inside and out.
Please explain this for me. Thanks
Or do I have to be a liberal also? (Your logic makes no sense at all - just saying.)