ATM confusion

[michaelboy]

Those little pictographs at ATM readers on banking machines and at the grocery stores often confuse me. I know they depict which way the magnetic strip or the tap is supposed to go, but my mind doesn’t seem to translate it correctly. So I tilt my head in different ways, as a confused dog might and imagine the alignment, but it doesn’t seem to help much.

Of course, this sort of thing happens to me when I look at the ”No Left Turn” symbolic sign – I look at it and think ”okay there is an arrow that directs me to the Left” and I block out the ’ghostbuster’ NO symbol. So I initially think, ”I can turn left here”

Or the times, I’ve studied the ”You are Here” maps in hospitals, I resign myself to aimlessly wandering instead.

So if you see a lost old man with a obvious look of confusion, it is probably me.

Comments

[mallorys_camera]

For many years, I had to start the Pledge of Allegiance to tell my right hand from my left. No really! 😀 It's called left-right confusion, and apparently, it affects 15% of the population.

Maybe you have some variant?

[michaelboy]

Sounds plausible to me.

[serafaery]

I'd be happy to wander around lost with you, with our magnet strips upside-down :)