Post by tyrone on Jul 23, 2008 20:15:34 GMT -5
I'm not sure this is the correct place to put this, since it's more an "Ohmygodwhathehell" sentiment. Whatever.
Do you ever sit down and wonder if you might be a freak? It's crossed my minds several times. It's very hard to explain.
See, it's like I've somehow gone blind and gotten all the extra senses: You know, radar, super hearing (Then, Superhearing detected a robbery: "Gimme yer dough." Blah.), super touch... It's freakign me out.
I first noticed it at my job when I was ...erm...dozing at the wheel, as it were. I was just getting things and bringing them to the appropriate places, and I only noticed halfway through that I had done it all with my eyes closed.
I work in a grocery store, maybe 200 X 300 feet in all. At any given point, there are perhaps two or three customers per aisle. Let's see, two point five average times eleven and a half aisles is... twenty eight people and one guy with a prosthetic leg to navigate around. It's freaky! Being able to just close your eyes and go from one end to the next...
This doesn't just stop inside the store, either. I can pick where I am in the parking lot by the feel of the pavement and the cracks.
The next part is what really freaks me out. I've learned that I can 'read' a price tag by running my thumb over it. No, I don't have a scanner built in. It's like the ink interfaces with the paper so that it's raised just a fraction of an inch, and that's enough for my fingers to 'read' it. It's gotten so I can actually read type down to about type size thirteen like that. Sure, it's occasionally useful during blackouts... but... You know?
So what do you think? Freak? Overreaction? "Shut-up-and-let-me-get-on-with-my-life?"
Do you ever sit down and wonder if you might be a freak? It's crossed my minds several times. It's very hard to explain.
See, it's like I've somehow gone blind and gotten all the extra senses: You know, radar, super hearing (Then, Superhearing detected a robbery: "Gimme yer dough." Blah.), super touch... It's freakign me out.
I first noticed it at my job when I was ...erm...dozing at the wheel, as it were. I was just getting things and bringing them to the appropriate places, and I only noticed halfway through that I had done it all with my eyes closed.
I work in a grocery store, maybe 200 X 300 feet in all. At any given point, there are perhaps two or three customers per aisle. Let's see, two point five average times eleven and a half aisles is... twenty eight people and one guy with a prosthetic leg to navigate around. It's freaky! Being able to just close your eyes and go from one end to the next...
This doesn't just stop inside the store, either. I can pick where I am in the parking lot by the feel of the pavement and the cracks.
The next part is what really freaks me out. I've learned that I can 'read' a price tag by running my thumb over it. No, I don't have a scanner built in. It's like the ink interfaces with the paper so that it's raised just a fraction of an inch, and that's enough for my fingers to 'read' it. It's gotten so I can actually read type down to about type size thirteen like that. Sure, it's occasionally useful during blackouts... but... You know?
So what do you think? Freak? Overreaction? "Shut-up-and-let-me-get-on-with-my-life?"
