Last night I watched the NCAA championship game. It was pretty good and came down to the wire, which is my favorite way for any game to go.
The only thing that annoyed me was the table that the announcer people sat at.
Across the side facing the court there were big numbers:
Two things about this really bothered me. Bothered me to distraction and drew my attention from the game.
First, the numbers read in descending order from left to right. For some reason this really bugged me because here in North America we hold the norm for numbers to read from left to right in ascending order. How hard would it have been to print them the correct direction and avoid the headache?
Second, 65? Why 65? Did they intentionally mess up the sequence to mess with my mind? Don't most people look at numbers around them and try to make patters, see order, develop a sequence for the chaos in life? Don't they know that one small ripple the pond of my consciousness will disturb everything else?
Why didn't' they just put 64 and avoid all this consternation?!?!?!