"Uh oh he was short with black hair, no no he was tall with grey hair"

hi tidwell1 well I had thought I did pretty well in that chase but my tall thin man with black hair turned out to be shorter with black hair, and I said he was wearing a black jacket but it was really dark brown and I said he wore grey flannel trousers and the instructor said he had grey jeans on. well I really did just about what everyone else did, about a b plus on it. Since then I have tried to notice more about people around me just in case.

Yeah....this post has made me think to pay more attention when out and about....

hi tidwell I got about an eighty on the test because I got the clothes and hair right but that was all, missed the shoes, the beard, the glasses and the fact that he was a Mexican too.but at least I did ace that course.

here I need to make a correction, my man had a black jacket indeed and black pants, this description came out of another test we had that was similar and the person doing this was my work mate, in this one she got that the slim man was just medium height and the jacket was not black but brown and the pants were grey denim not grey flannel as she said. I was reading the two reports and got us mixe up. this test I just sat in on as I did not need it, but my partner used my name with hers on it.

hi joyce I have been trying that on people I see walking past and find I am getting a little more observant as the one old timer Vietnamese gentleman I see every once in a while always wears a black hat and black shirt and pants, even black shoes, and carries a fancy cane.He is the only one I have really been able to remember details on however.

hi fwidman of course specially the shoes he he.yes I think in a school one would be more likely to really pay attention to people and to what is happening all around you. I can remember voices better than faces and walks sometimes too. Some people do have a distinctive way of walking that is unlike anyone else.

ybong007 yes a lot of us have that same problem, we do not see the details and when asked we usually get it all wrong.so the police must use other things besides people;s descriptions as they cannot rely on them and must have other avenues to use to explore for catching the bad guy.

pandaeyes hi I have heard of Crimewatch but never watched it. "I too wonder if one could really remember if they got their memory jogged like that,as I know if someone asked me just what I had to eat for dinner a week or ten days ago I would reallybe hard put to remember. but maybe the seriousness of the crime being reconstructed might well bring back some crucial bits of information.

hi pandaeyes yes some people can really recognize details that others of us just do not see. I think I am getting a little better , I did get a B on the class but not on my test of the bad m ans clothes, not at all. I missed a lot of things there for sure.

we have crimewatch on TV and often they will show a reconstruction of a crime from years ago. I often wonder if people can really have their memory jogged by seeing things like that.

hi jennybianca I know I am not very obseverant or I would have known more correct facts on the so called crook we were to observe him as he ran down the aisle. I did get his hair color right and his jacket and shoes. other than that I missed quite a lot,

hi terri0824 yes I think it would depend on that for me too as I usually am thinking of what I inted to do. I was shocked at how little I got right on the man's appearance. I was sure he was tall and dark haired but missed his dark suit and red pocket handerchief. But I did notice his shoes and his jacket were grey and scuffed.

hi dragon54u my hubby was like that too, and he noticed details unlike most of us, in fact he even noticed my clothes which a lot of men dont do. He was quick to comment if he liked a new dress or not. Several times we witnessed a car accident and while I was groping around for the real facts my hubby was spieling them out to the police officer., He in instance adequately described a wanted car thief to the police and recieved an award of a thousand dollars from the parents of the child that was in the car the thief stole. The child was recovered too with nothing but a few bruises. the thief was a woman if you please and she had a little girl at home so she was kind to the child.

hi dawnald yes indeed, we had a guest speaker that day, the chief of police, and he told how in one case one eyewitness said the man was tall and slim, while others said he was short and plump, and even one person'insisted the man was a dwarf. If one's life depended on eye witness accounts of what they saw the person could be doomed.

hi bunnybon good thing you got the guys license number and his description as that really helped the girl to know exactly who he was . I used to be pretty good at describing things going on around me but in that test that day in the U I did just so so. lol lol lol

I find I am not really very observant and am trying to practice it just in case I ever need to know in an emergency.I do remember one time when I was shopping with my little daughter, mymom and my sister. I had been holding lisa's hand and had to let go of it long enough to pay the sales clerk, and wham she was gone. WE looked all over the store and got the manager who asked for her description and I cou ld remember she had on a white dress with red hearts printed on it, a red ribobn in her hair, her hair was dark brown and she had very blue eyes. the manager returned laughing a few moments later, come with me he said and led us back to the dress materials aisle. the clerk there was giggling as the manager pointed to a stack of dress material behind the counter. there atop the dress goods, was my little girl sound asleep and all curled up.what a relief. wow.

hi cyrus She was so pretty people were sort of shocked to learn she was brain damaged at birth and had probably the IQ of a four or five year old at age eight. she would never been any better according to the doctor, but a clinic in new Jersy I think it was told us if we could get therethey had a program called patterning that would help her to use her brains to boost her ID to normal. but we did not have the money to get there at all or the funds they wanted to put her in that program. this was a long time back .she would have 'been 49 now had she lived.

Oh, Hatley! I'm so sorry to hear about this! I know you really miss her especially around Thanksgiving! Bless her heart and yours, too. I bet it was really hard for you to lose her at such a young age. She still sound like a little doll, though. Kathy.

hi dorannmwin oh I was awful as the whole thing happened in about ten minutes or less. I got that he had black hair and black jacket and pants, but not about his beard or glasses or his odd grey loafers Only two people aced that and they were police officers taking this course with some other cou rses. according to our instructor very few people got all or just part of them.

hi vanday yes it seemed that he was dressed in all dark clothes except his shoes were grey that I did remember.;his hair I do not remember now but I do think I got it right. I know that I really am not as observant as I used to be. lol lol

I mean the person would do hardly anything to be conspicuous. :)

hi danishcanadian my eyes arent too keen either, specially now with doing so much typing on the net and mylot too; I am still waiting for permission from my insurance to go to an ophthalmologist to have my eye checked and also checked for needing new glasses.

hi paula I got the hair color right and the j acket and pants, but I aid he had on black tennies and he did not, he had on expensive gray loafers and I did notice he wore glasses and had a beard. so I did not do too well on that at all.

hi ifa yes we had about as many different descriptions of the man as there were students and the only ones who got all the features right were two police officers who were taking some courses at the college.

hi jenintn yes we were told that and also he was really tall, butlike you said a tall person might say he was of average height, while to a shortie he would appear almost a giant. We had talked about describing people earlier in the lecture but none of us were prepared when this guy dashed down the hall with the fake police officer afterhim. lol lollol

hi bodhisatya I am that way to and also as he had his back to us as he ran I really could only see his face was dark as though he were Spanish and his hair was black too. I knew he wore dark clothes but did not notice he had gray shoes.

hi bounce the big lecture hall was dimmed but not that dark, but the surpise running down the aisle startled me for a while as he was running so fast and it seemed almost blurred to me. yet we were to write down as much of whatever we saw.