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English Idiom: Draw a blank
Love’em or hate’em, we’ve all had a senior moment or two.
Some of you may draw a blank when you try to remember your most recent senior moment.
That’s OK, though.
If you can’t remember it, then it wasn’t important anyway.
To draw a blank means you get no answer or response.
If you’ve had kids, they’ve done it to you, and it had nothing to do with your memory.
Have you ever asked a kid a question and got nothing in return?
Yes, no, kiss my a**, nothing… crickets.
That, my friend, is also drawing a blank.
Young people do it to others very well.
They are able to tune you out.
On a different note, my dog often does it to me.
These days she’s in the kotatsu, and when I call her to go for a walk, I draw a blank.
There is no response whatsoever.
Little Shibas really love their kotatsu, don’t they?
To get back to the brain stuff, did you know that your brain actively works to forget things?
Yep, it’s true.
Your mind will remember some things because they are classified as essential.
Other things are classified as ‘read-and-destroy.’
Things like what you had for breakfast last year on August 24th are read-and-destroy.
If you try to remember, you only draw a blank.
I can remember my childhood telephone number, but have no idea what my current smartphone number is even though it’s a vanity number – I chose it and paid for it.
Sometimes it’s good to forget.
Who needs all that useless stuff floating around their minds?
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 83.
The higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100, the easier the passage is to read.