I don't recall if I have done the latest iteration of habitual actions or not [1]. This means, for example, I will usually check to see if I have locked my front door two or three times before I walk away from the house. Shaving my head is the sort of thing I forget if I've done or not.
In fact, I was pondering if I needed to shave it tonight when I remembered that last night was actually a fairly memorable shave, because I learned something valuable.
My electric razor needs to be cleaned out after each use and I couldn't recall if I'd remembered to do that the last time I used it or not. In fact I seem to have but what I didn't remember to do after checking and before pressing it to my head was to re-attach the razor part, so just after I thought "That sounds wrong" I then discovered what it feels like to press three small rapidly rotating axles into my scalp.
It was not a soothing massage.
On the plus side, I do actually remember it.
1: Also I remember paying my phone bill at Rogers and the stuff I bought at Zehrs implies I got from one to the other but I don't recall doing that either.
- So, I have this memory thing
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james_nicoll- November 7th, 2010
2010-11-08 07:32 am (UTC)
Hey, I did this, back when *I* worked as a night watchman.
We carried a "Simplex time-recorder" clock that rotated a circular paper, the keys embossed a mark on the sheet at the appropriate time.
We learned that you could load multiple papers, and turning the keys with sufficient force would emboss a readable mark through multiple sheets. The duplicate sheets could be submitted on successive nights. Voila', the actual effort required was cut to a fraction.
And yeah, similarly, I had some bright bunny at MY job get busted when they pushed it too far, up to six (illegible) sheets or something.