Sense of Time

Post Reply
 
ColdHouse
Member
Posts: 2172
Joined: Thu. Nov. 08, 2012 12:06 pm
Location: Bristol, CT

Post by ColdHouse » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 6:38 pm

Anyone have a keen sense of time?
I can normally tell you what time it is even if it has been hours since last being aware of the time. I can wake up and without looking at the clock know the time within a few minutes. If I go to be and need to wake up at a certain time I normally wake up 10 minutes before that time with no alarm.

Another thing, I can look at a full grocery cart without even actually knowing what is in it and come within a couple dollars to the cost at the register.

Often times I go thru the register at the grocery warehouse and after I receive the receipt I think that is not the right price. I go back and look and sure enough the price is wrong. I take a picture of the price on the shelf, go to customer service, and get the item for free if under $20. Point is I wasn't even consciously looking at the price when I picked up the item.

 
User avatar
davidmcbeth3
Member
Posts: 8505
Joined: Sun. Jun. 14, 2009 2:31 pm
Coal Size/Type: nut/pea/anthra

Post by davidmcbeth3 » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 7:03 pm

I don't even own a clock, that's how good I am with estimating what time it is.

I'm usually almost right, plus or minus 12 hrs.

 
ColdHouse
Member
Posts: 2172
Joined: Thu. Nov. 08, 2012 12:06 pm
Location: Bristol, CT

Post by ColdHouse » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 7:07 pm

davidmcbeth3 wrote:
Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 7:03 pm
I don't even own a clock, that's how good I am with estimating what time it is.

I'm usually almost right, plus or minus 12 hrs.
That is good. Tight!


 
franco b
Site Moderator
Posts: 11416
Joined: Wed. Nov. 05, 2008 5:11 pm
Location: Kent CT
Hand Fed Coal Stove: V ermont Castings 2310, Franco Belge 262
Baseburners & Antiques: Glenwood Modern Oak 114
Coal Size/Type: nut and pea

Post by franco b » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 8:56 pm

ColdHouse wrote:
Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 7:07 pm
That is good. Tight!
What is this "tight"?

Bad enough I had to learn "cool" don't mean cool anymore, so tight ain't cool.

 
User avatar
SMITTY
Member
Posts: 12496
Joined: Sun. Dec. 11, 2005 12:43 pm
Location: West-Central Mass
Stoker Coal Boiler: EFM 520 Highboy
Coal Size/Type: Rice / Blaschak anthracite
Other Heating: Oil fired Burnham boiler

Post by SMITTY » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 9:33 pm

This topic reminds me of the first time I smoked weed around age 12 or so. My buddy and I were pushing our bicycles up a hill because we were too winded. :lol: It seemed like we were walking for an HOUR. I looked at my watch - it had been 3 minutes ...

:funny: :-D :funny:

 
User avatar
freetown fred
Member
Posts: 30292
Joined: Thu. Dec. 31, 2009 12:33 pm
Location: Freetown,NY 13803
Hand Fed Coal Stove: HITZER 50-93
Coal Size/Type: BLASCHAK Nut

Post by freetown fred » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 9:35 pm

:lol: been there done that my young friend!!! ;)


 
Hootyburra
Member
Posts: 124
Joined: Sun. Sep. 17, 2017 8:43 pm
Hot Air Coal Stoker Stove: Alaskan Stoker II
Coal Size/Type: Rice
Other Heating: Oil

Post by Hootyburra » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 10:17 pm

Yup, I'm normally good within ten minutes. Also have a weird things with timers/ timing, I'll come back from doing something like tending the stove a few seconds before the oven timer goes off or microwave stops or water is ready to boil. It freaks me out sometimes.
I hate alarms, I sleep through multiple during the work week yet I'm up before them on the weekends 😂 might be signs a career change is needed.

 
hank2
Member
Posts: 845
Joined: Sat. Dec. 10, 2011 4:07 pm
Location: Berks County
Hand Fed Coal Stove: DS Machine 1400 WH ciculator; 1880's small cannon in reserve
Coal Size/Type: Nut
Other Heating: small New Yorker oil fired boiler; mostly used for domestic HW

Post by hank2 » Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 11:42 pm

franco b wrote:
Thu. Feb. 09, 2023 8:56 pm
What is this "tight"?

Bad enough I had to learn "cool" don't mean cool anymore, so tight ain't cool.
8-) The last time "tight" was around was maybe 1971. I heard it a good bit in the military, mostly from Marines. It then meant solid or right-on, not so much "cool".

The first big circulation of "awesome" was early 1980's. It got laughed away fairly quickly. 20 years this time and it won't go away.

Not as good as I used to be on doing the mental calculator while going around the supermarket. I nearly ruined a clean pair of pants yesterday when the total came up at the supermarket checkout.

Post Reply

Return to “The Coffee House”