Is your mind so far in the gutter it's cleaning out old leaves? Read on...
A Psych Prof is talking about tacks.
Prof: Easy to push in, hard to pull out... because when it was being designed, pushing it in was what the designer had in mind. That's what it's for - going in. Pulling it out is the thing that nobody thinks about. It's the thing that you don't think of as the actual function.
Later in the same lecture, the Prof is describing scissors.
Prof: There's a big hole and a small hole, so you put your thumb in the one hole and you put two fingers in the other hole. But for some reason, this time, both holes are the exact same size, and my fingers don't fit in properly! I'm going to injure myself!
Time passes. The Prof is describing pumping gas.
Prof: If you end up on the wrong side, you have to pull the hose way out and all the way around in order to stick it in the hole.
-- Applications of Psychology lecture, overheard by Deanna
Prof: Easy to push in, hard to pull out... because when it was being designed, pushing it in was what the designer had in mind. That's what it's for - going in. Pulling it out is the thing that nobody thinks about. It's the thing that you don't think of as the actual function.
Later in the same lecture, the Prof is describing scissors.
Prof: There's a big hole and a small hole, so you put your thumb in the one hole and you put two fingers in the other hole. But for some reason, this time, both holes are the exact same size, and my fingers don't fit in properly! I'm going to injure myself!
Time passes. The Prof is describing pumping gas.
Prof: If you end up on the wrong side, you have to pull the hose way out and all the way around in order to stick it in the hole.
-- Applications of Psychology lecture, overheard by Deanna
posted by Overheard at Western at 1:16 PM
7 Comments:
gotta love hazlewood
He uses the same examples every time he teaches the course.
Applications of Psychology... sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Just kidding SS kids.
I took that course 2 years ago...and knew after the first line it was from Hazlewood. He's got a special way about him...
sounds like my kind of class! dirty minds are fun
haha i was in this class, definitely didn't think like that
i took that class last year and i knew it was him after the first sentence!!!!
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