Date:         Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:25:32 -0400
Reply-To:     Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
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From:         Joy Hecht <jhecht@ALUM.MIT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: VW facebook additional instructions!
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Hmm, is that the difference between mechanics and non-mechanics?

Or between men and women?

Except for Greg Potts' van, you'd be lucky if I could even tell you the
color of anyone's van other than mine!

Unless, of course, folks out there suffer from face blindness and need vans
to identify their owners?  Face blindness is a somewhat rare neurological
condition where you can't recognize faces.  I have a mild case of it, albeit
quite mild, and have recently learned a lot of about it.  People with
serious cases (not me!) don't recognize their own parents, aren't always
sure which child to pick up at day-care, and if looking in the mirror in a
public bathroom have to wave to figure out which one is themself.  On the
other hand, from what I've seen on the faceblindness listserv, people with
that condition also have great trouble recognizing cars!  So the facebook,
including vans, wouldn't help.  :-)



Joy


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Joy Hecht
now living in a real house in northern Virginia
and Matilda, 1989 Burgundy Vanagon
now living in the driveway and resting after two and a half years
lugging Joy and her stuff around...

For musings about life and the vanadventures:
http://www.joyhecht.net

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:::-----Original Message-----
:::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
:::Of Ed Duntz
:::Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 5:53 AM
:::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
:::Subject: Re: VW facebook additional instructions!
:::
:::Joy,
:::
:::I think it's great to be able to put a name with a face with a name, but
:::don't we just as often remember people by what vehicle they came to an
:::event
:::in? I often meet people while they're at their van, and it would help me
:::to
:::remember the person and the van together.
:::
:::Ed Duntz