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Old 23rd Jul 2021, 7:28 pm   #21
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Default Re: (The trade). Golden years?

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Originally Posted by Radio Wrangler View Post
....The careers lot seemed rather fixated on whether my colour vision was good enough. In the junior school we all got tested. We weren't told a thing about what it was or what it was for. They just plopped a thing in front of me and asked me which number I could see. I didn't bother with all the coloured dots, there was a nice clear number printed bottom left, a PROPER number so I read them that.... "No no, just the first number you see" so I read them the first digit of what must have been the serial number of each successive page they showed me. I now know what it was and what went wrong. They failed to explain that there were numbers hidden in the dots, they failed to be suspicious that I never hesitated....
David
Well I got tested recently and was told I'm colour blind. The news came right out of the yellow.
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