I remember we hired this nurse where i was stationed at. And she could not tell time. The only way she could tell time is if it digital. I don't know how she made it thru high school let alone nursing.
It's a surprisingly useless skill in the modern day if you have a digital watch. Most people just use their phone or a smart watch and those show time with plain digits so there's no interpretation. I forgot how to read an analogue clock face for the longest time, bought a classic watch recently and have picked up the skill again but if I didn't then I'd never use it and I'd forget it again. Despite what some people think not all skills are unforgettable, it's just a matter of how useful it is day to day over a long period.
Exactly. My boss and I were like wtf. I found out later that she quit to become a nurse stripper. Then got in trouble for using the local hospitals clothing while stripping.
As a millennial i can read analoge time and i do love the look of mechanical clockwork.
But whenever i actually have to read time on them i get this carsick feeling. I do not like interpreting it.
Someone who grew up on phones has digital time in their pocket at all times. There is zero reinforcement outside school teachings for such.
Back in the olden days, we learned basic fractions before we learned to tell time, so we learned to think in quarters and halves of an hour. When I see a clock face, I usually just look to see what part of the hour we're in without necessarily knowing what specific minute we're at. "Oh, it's nearly half passed," is usually good enough, rather than having to be exact, "Oh, it's 4:28pm precisely." I suppose things have changed a lot since then -- when I was in school we were too busy hiding from dinosaurs to learn much else!
The characters switched sides nearly every panel and there are no word lines. I was very confused about who was talking until around the fourth read through of it. It really killed the joke because of that.