I have to sometimes sing the alphabet song (same tune as twintwinkle little star) to myself in my head while going through a dictionary or the phonebook because I get lost and loose track otherwise. It certainly helps if nothing else.
Does anyone else do this or am I very, very special?
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HOLY SHIT, THAT'S A REVELATION. I never realised! :facepalm:
Anyway, yeah I do this a lot when looking shit up in the dictionary. Like, I still have no idea what order t, r and s go in unless I sing the song.
I can start from either A or L.
I look at a letter and i can figure out which part of the alphabet it belongs too (Upper half or Lower half).
All this is aided by the alphabet song.
I cant do it sober, how the fuck could I do it shitfaced?
that is why they ask you to do it. They don't expect anyone to actually be able to say the alphabet backwards sober or not. But if you say, "WTF, I couldn't do that sober yet alone drunk", that creates reasonable suspicion/probable cause and allows them to force the administration of a breath test.
Yuor best response is something like, "I am sorry officer but I do not know the alphabet backwards". If they insist simply repeat that phrase and add so I am not going to attempt that. This can not be used as reasonable suspicion/ probable cause no more that a one legged man paraplegic refusing to walk a straight line could be used.
I'm the same way. A and L are my reference point for every other letter.
The only way I'm actually able to say the alphabet backwards is waayyyyy too much time spent texting with a 12 key phone.
Had it memorized for so long so I could text without looking at the phone that I just go through the keys backwards numerically.
It takes a bit of thought, but it works for me.