Had a funny interaction at work and I realized it's a story I've never shared on this board. When I was a kid my eyes went from 20/20 to
/10 gazillion like really fast. The doctor that we saw was a small town guy who told my parents that if the degeneration continued at the current rate I'd be blind before I hit 10. But that's not the funny part, obviously, because it didn't happen. I just needed glasses. But what it DID do is give me a couple of very interesting personality traits that continue to this day. First, I always know what the layout of a room looks like and can usually traverse it even with eyes closed very quickly. I memorize pathways. I also count stairs. So if I'm going to be somewhere for more than a day and it has stairs, I count them and memorize them. This is where the conversation comes in.
Dude at work: Electricity is out for about 4 hours. Take a flashlight when you use the back stairwell.
Me: No need.
Dude: It's dark as shit back there. You'll trip.
Me: Nope. 10-11-12-12.
Dude: ??
Me: That's the stair count going down to the outside door.
Dude (after hearing why I know this): You memorized ALL the stairs? How about from control room level in fermentation?
Me: Going down? 15-13-17. From this level to ground floor it's always 45 stairs.
Dude: Control room to admin offices?
Me: Using the front stairs it's 18-13-14. The back stairs are 18-14-13.
Dude: Evap area.
Me: That one's easy. It's 15-15-15. Only one in the building that's even.
Dude: Control room level up to the duct collectors.
Me: 17-17-11-14-16-10-7. The 10-7 are if you continuing up to get magnet samples.
Dude: Nerd.
edit: By the way, the reason I know these stairs is I get to go up & down them a lot. Which is why I've been maintaining my weight and even have lost a little. Back down to 190.