Ref: on following directions

[Teresa Thompson <CrdCat@AOL.COM>]

There actually is a test for following directions--not apocrophal. I've used
it occassionally with classes, when I taught school.

Here it is: kids think it's pretty funny, but gets the point across. They
like to take a copy home to their parents!

CAN YOU FOLLOW DIRECTIONS ACCURATELY?

1. Read everything before doing anything.
2. Put your name in the upper right hand corner of this paper.
3. Circle the word "name" in sentence two.
4. Draw five small squares in the upper left-hand corner of this paper.
5. Put an "x" in each square.
6. Put a circle around each square.
7. Sign your name under the title.
8. After the title write, "Yes, Yes, Yes."
9. Put a circle around each word in sentence No. 7.
10. Put an "x" in the lower left-hand corner of this paper.
11. Draw a triangle around the "x" you just put down.
12. On the reverse side of this paper multiply 703 by 9805.
13. Draw a rectangle around the word "paper" in sentence No. 4.
14. Call ut your first name when you get to this p oint in the test.
15. If you think you have followed directions up to this point call out, "I
have."
16. On the reverse side of this paper, add 8950 and 9850.
17. Put a circle around your answer. Put a square around the circle.
18. Count out loud in your normal speaking voice backwards from ten to one.
19. Now that you have finished reading carefully, do only sentence one and
two.

Have fun!
Teresa Thompson
recent library sci. graduate
(still unemployed!)
University of Iowa
crdcat@aol.com

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