How do people in the movies get how things are spelled when someone tells them verbally? And even more, how do they remember a phone number after being told it once?
Maybe it\’s just for the time, but anytime someone tells me a phone number, I have to have them slow down and repeat it slowly. Then when someone tells me a street name, I have to have them spell it. Today, I asked for the address of a prospective place in Pittsburgh. She gave me the street address really quickly. Then said it was at the intersection of Elwood and Donmey. Then I looked at the map. It was actually Elwood and Negley. Maybe my hearing is going bad…
I agree with the phone number bit. I definitely can\’t remember a phone number when someone just gives it to me when speaking at normal speed and me repeating it just once.
I get orders for home-deleveries at the restaurant and people just go \”blahblahlbhablahblabh\” and then get stroppy when I say \”sorry, what was the street name? could you spell that?\”
Movie people only need to remember 4 numbers since the first three are always 555. Makes it much easier than the eleven digit dialing folks in SoCal have.
whoo could this someone be? ;]