123456789 987654321

Backwards and forwards, the touchpads are miscommunicating to my brain.

Thes numbers begin at the bottom with "1" and work upward to "9"

Yet in contrast, the telephone goes from top "1" and end with "9"

The joy of a comptometer operator (back office calculations operator) is when your fingers are free from sight, meaning you can type numbers without looking at each button that your finger presses. This means rapididity, a freedom from mind and body.

The difficulty for me is when I am done counting millions of dollars I then need to use the phone. I transfer this same skill of non-looking and dial an incorrect number.

The example of horror was when I just made a bunch of phone calls and then went to type some numbers on the computer, the number "377 . . . .", when I finished and looked up I had actually typed "911 . . . " -- you can imagine the surprise and relief that the commputer did not do as I had commanded.

The Reason for the difference, as I am able to project, is that it must be easier to make phone calls by counting down and it is easier to type and count numbers by typing up.

I just wish they both would go up to "11".