I'm awful at remembering names and faces, a lot of the time unless I know the person very well or something very specific happened relating the who/what they were (and even then I often don't remember the names or faces) people just fall into two categories, male and female. The ironic thing is if I went to a zoo for example I would be able to tell you exactley what species did what.
Example:
On friday I went to a farm which had loads of birds, I can tell you the following.
- A male eclectus parrot starting honking at us.
- Two sun conures, the one on my left was preening the one on my right, the one on the right kept getting annoyed at the one on the left.
- A raven came to watch us, there were two ravens in the aviary, the one that came to watch us had a small white patch on each wing.
- There were two greater-sulphur crested cockatoos in an avairy, one had unusally pale eyes (they were red but the bird wasn't albino or lutino), the other one had normal eyes and we played a game involving a stick with that one.
I could carry on like that for ages, but if I was watching people in cages I might be able to tell you what they did but not anything about them (unless I saw something particularly unusual), or which one did what, they would all just blur into one or at best: males and females.
31 Jul 2005, 12:20 am
