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Group: uk.transport · Group Profile
Author: MortimerMortimer Date: Jul 26, 2008 07:58
"Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
news:3PGdneuGr6B0qxbVnZ2dnUVZ8sHinZ2d@bt.com...> Mortimer wrote:
>> "Brimstone" yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:5IadnVO_Ju2ttxbVnZ2dnUVZ8tninZ2d@bt.com...> I had to learn when driving in the army and since then I've never done it
> any other way. I'll accept that some (most?) saloon cars have
> comparatively crappy little mirrors but with practise it can be done.
>
>> Spacial awareness and the ability to mentally reverse the mirror image
>> probably helps!
>
> No need to reverse anything, just be able to judge whether or not you're
> going to hit whatever it is. (Hint, don't make it more complicated than it
> is, which it isn't.)
I think it's that when I see that I'm getting close to something, I have to
*think* which way to steer to take myself away from it and to judge whether
or not I'm getting closer to it - things which I can (metaphorically) do
with my eyes shut when I'm looking directly rather than by the mirrors.
Maybe it helps when looking out of the rear window that you can see
everything (left, back, right) at the same time without having to keep
alternating between the left and right mirrors to make sure that as I move
out of range of one side, I don't come too close to the other side.
>> It probably goes hand-in-hand with her "perfect measurement" (like
>> some people have perfect pitch) to be able to judge how long a
>> distance of a few centimetres is to the nearest millimetre without
>> needing a ruler (even more impressive when it's the length of a
>> tortuous route on a map!), to judge to spirit-level accuracy when
>> something is not level, to judge which of two similar objects is the
>> heavier, to determine when the border at the top of a picture is a
>> fraction of a millimetre bigger than the one at the bottom. And she
>> can add up a column of figures in her head without needing a pen and
>> paper to keep track of all the carry digits! And being a woman she
>> possesses the multi-tasking and the plan-before-doing genes which men
>> lack!
>
> Oh God!! She's one of them!!!
>
> (I'm not sure what this particular "one of them" is, but she sounds like
> one.)
LOL. You might very well think so. I couldn't possible comment. ;-) Oh and
when she has bath or does any hand-washing, her fingers and toes don't even
go wrinkly after being submerged in water!
When we were taking photos of some birds flying overhead the other weeks, I
was amazed that she could accurately follow each bird and keep it
permanently within a small area of the viewfinder used to denote the
auto-focus point, whereas my pictures were blurred because I couldn't keep
it consistently in that small area about 1/10 the width of the frame.
But she can't program in C. Mind you, I think I might be a bit rusty on that
one nowadays!
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