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Once before we had a topic on this BB about Lettervillians with dyslexia. Seems a lot of folks suffer from mild to wild levels of the learning disability.
I suffer mildly from it, mostly on Sunday when I'm told to look up a bible scripture, like John 3:16 and I open John 16:3...and I invert telephone numbers on a daily basis, thank the Cell Phone people for listing the recent phone calls with speed dial call back!
Anyway, we recently bought a 12 foot enclosed pull behind trailer to haul signs, and let me tell you this has been right up there with best investments, as we use it at least 3 times a week.
After a few tries of listening to every one tell me how to back it up into the shop, and failing every time, I tried again when no one was around and...swish...right in the shop overhead door! A hole in one!
I have discovered if I turn my head and look at the trailer directly, I mess up every time. But when I look in the mirrors, and watch which way the back end of the trailer is moving, I can nail that baby right on target every time.
I'm thinking by looking in the mirrors, since it makes everyting backwards, my brain understands what needs to be done in reverse and it all works out!
I thought this might help any who have trouble backing up a trailer with dyslexia...this is something you can do!
You can share more dyslexia stories here if good fun!
And I wish you could'a seen the all the perty curves I put in the tailgate on my old truck backin' into a coupl'a telephone poles!! (because I refused, of course, to drive with it up) . . . . I resorted to removing it completely and I finally sold the truck too . . . .I guess he was'nt worried about havin' any tail-gate parties!! lol
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I bet I can back that trailer right up in .....hehehehe...oh that was another topic.
Seriously Dave...years ago I backed the wife's Camaro out of the garage....but forgot to put the door up first. I'm right there with you my man... I guess because the other garage door was up (we have a garage with two doors) and I could see daylight as I walked to the car...I dumbly assumed the other one was up...which is wasn't. Yikes!
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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I'm with you Dave when it comes to phone numbers! Can check them twice before cutting and still get them wrong. Now Sue double checks for me.
Trailers are ok. Yer gotta think backwards
Most awsome trailer thing I saw was when we were doing a semi for this Molasses delivery company. Dude backed two 40ft (TWO!) linked trailers into a shed with about 6" each side clearance. Did it in one hit! Wish I could "think" like that!
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way back in truck driving school they used to set up lines of cones for us to drive through with 53s..no problem. Until we got to the end and they told us to do the same thing backwards...well....the comedy ensued!! :-)
-------------------- Robert Talesky Pocono Signworks RR#3 Box 2246-A Effort, PA 18330 newjerseyrobert@aol.com Posts: 17 | From: Effort, PA | Registered: Feb 2004
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Best job denting one I've ever seen was on Storrow Drive in Boston. 11'6" trailer trying to fit into a 10'6" tunnel....very messy, but the impact was something to see.
Don't know if the driver was dyslexic, but I'll bet money a night course in math would do him some good. Rapid
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Try working with a brain like mine, that runs halfways in "german "mode, where two digit numbers are pronounced backwards (kind of like saying six'n fifty for 56). Add to this a metric mind that has to adapt to imperial, but not all the time, because even though we are officially metric, it's not used consistently. Mix this with a generous amount of absent-mindedness, and I should qualify for a disability pension. I know lesser challenged people who do...
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Hey Michael C., It's actually D.A.M.M., "Drunks against mad mothers"
Havin' fun,
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I guess because the other garage door was up (we have a garage with two doors) and I could see daylight as I walked to the car...I dumbly assumed the other one was up...which is wasn't. Yikes!
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