[ExI] barber

[SR Ballard]

The barber usually parts the hair from the back, no? He may have mentally reversed sidedness.

Or he could be someone like me who can’t tell right from left on a consistent basis.

I got confused about it as a little kid and have never recovered.

SR Ballard

> On Mar 22, 2020, at 9:45 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> 
> Beyond stunned. I was getting a haircut and asked the barber how most people parted their hair on the left versus the right.  I thought it was on the left, as I have noticed that, or so I thought, being a man who parted his on the right (which might have something to do with my dad being left-handed and me being nearly equal on both sides).
> 
> Anyhow, he looked puzzled and finally said on the right.  I looked it up when I got home and sure enough, 90% of right handers part on the left, and so do 45% of lefthanders.
> 
> My question is:  how can someone look at heads all day long for about 40 years and not notice where most people part their hair?  When asked, get it wrong.
> 
> So it made me wonder, since the barber was of average intelligence, what I had been missing despite looking at it all my life.  I have come up with a few over the years:  in the Revolutionary War there was a group called the Green Mountain Boys.  I wondered where that came from until I finally got it when I looked at the word Vermont for the thousandth time, and saw it.  Then my mind went to :  Giuseppe Verdi - Joe Green.
> 
> We look and we look again and for many years we just don't see.  I wonder how many abstractions are that way.  We know the definition but simply do not understand the concept the way we think we do.  When we do, it's a little epiphany.
> 
> bill w
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