that awkward moment

I have a boss who enjoys talking. Usually we get along just fine — Boss talks, and I mostly listen and nod. There is a certain value to speaking your thoughts out loud to another person, like running them through a ‘hey, is this crazy?’ filter before foisting them on the world at large.

However, right now a lot of the talk is about a potential building project, and my normal strategy is not cutting it. Spatial awareness, especially visualizing spaces not yet in place, or visualizing a drawing into 3D space, is the opposite of a strong point for me.

For instance: today Boss drew a diagram on a piece of scrap paper to illustrate something, and then he *turned around* and we were facing the opposite direction, and I was all ‘… Sorry, you lost me. Which bit is the right-hand wall again?’

Basically, I have successfully concealed the fact that I have absolutely no spatial envisioning powers for the last nearly-four years at this job. It just hasn’t been a big deal. But now I feel kind of bad, like if the boss is going to ask me what I think of these things, maybe I should find some way to be like, ‘maybe you should check with someone else.’

Except I’m not sure of a way to have that come out not sounding like, ‘hey, all those times when I said something sounded like it would work I was just guessing, because I’m terrible at picturing 3D spaces and I had no idea what you were talking about — sorry about that.’ Yeah.

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