Life's Little Pleasures...

[BajaRon]

 

[Peter Aawen]

I truly feel for Jim.

Been there, done that... EXACTLY that!!

And yet they try to tell us that women are more able to discern subtle differences in colour... Yeah, right!

 

[TheMariner]

Haha... I've had that too. My mum had a habit, as lots of elderly people do, of wearing her sun glasses inside buildings. The tint on her glasses altered the colours she was seeing, making everything look darker.

 

[Snoking1127]

Don't be picking on us elderly people, I can still tell the difference between a green go and and stop light! Oh yeah, and the Stop when in doubt amber light.

 

[Peter Aawen]

Don't be picking on us elderly people, I can still tell the difference between a green go and and stop light! Oh yeah, and the Stop when in doubt amber light.

Here in Oz, despite many treating that one as a 'Go faster once this comes on' amber light, that one actually means 'Stop unless you'll die by being hit from behind'... not that you'd ever think so, from what you see people doing once it lights up!

But I wouldn't boast too much about being able to tell the difference between the Stop and Go lights... not unless you are absolutely sure it's the colours you can see vs just working off the position of the lights! A few years ago, I was involved (as a 'pilot study test subject') with some research to determine when/if drivers who were getting older should be required to do additional tests in order to maintain their Driver's licences, and one of the 'tests' proposed that all of us were subjected to was to invert the traffic light display and then only pass those who still stopped on Red (when it was at the bottom) and went on Green (when it was at the top)! All the test-ees but two of us (both ex-professional drivers and funnily enough, also pilots) failed that one, and then those test-ees who failed on the road/track also failed a subsequent colour blindness test!!

Apparently, many aging drivers just go by the position of the lights, rather than the colours...

 

[Little Blue]

Yes, that's something you can look forward to down the road.
Things seem to just creep up.

 

[Mikey]

Yes, that's something you can look forward to down the road.
Things seem to just creep up.

Creep up??? Heck, it's creeping down!!!

 

[Peter Aawen]

Creep up??? Heck, it's creeping down!!!

Nah, you're just facing the wrong way!! Here, where I am Down Under, it's definitely creeping UP!

 

[Snoking1127]

Here in Oz, despite many treating that one as a 'Go faster once this comes on' amber light, that one actually means 'Stop unless you'll die by being hit from behind'... not that you'd ever think so, from what you see people doing once it lights up!

But I wouldn't boast too much about being able to tell the difference between the Stop and Go lights... not unless you are absolutely sure it's the colours you can see vs just working off the position of the lights! A few years ago, I was involved (as a 'pilot study test subject') with some research to determine when/if drivers who were getting older should be required to do additional tests in order to maintain their Driver's licences, and one of the 'tests' proposed that all of us were subjected to was to invert the traffic light display and then only pass those who still stopped on Red (when it was at the bottom) and went on Green (when it was at the top)! All the test-ees but two of us (both ex-professional drivers and funnily enough, also pilots) failed that one, and then those test-ees who failed on the road/track also failed a subsequent colour blindness test!!

Apparently, many aging drivers just go by the position of the lights, rather than the colours...

In Arizona drivers race at a red light throw the anchor out at the last minute. If you are slowing for the light they whip around you so they can continue to race at the red light.

 

[Knizar]

OK.OK, ceeping up, down, over, & under is getting creepy!

 

[mecsw500]

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I place crosses of black duct tape across my cases and have the numbers one through four written in Sharpie on the top.

My wife openly admits she can’t otherwise tell our suitcases from others. Going into a parking lot at the store she always heads for the first white SUV she sees. I even put a decal in the rear window to help.

I think she places things into categories by type and color. Suitcase: silver, metal; SUV: white.

She’s a remarkably intelligent woman who spent 50 years working in tech. Go figure.

 

[racoon]

When I fly I use colored luggage straps around my luggage.
I have one that has rainbow stripes and one that has red, white, and blue stripes.