tunnel-vision is a thing…
 tunnel-vision is a thing…    i noticed my signal was   still blinking half a   block after i’d cleared   an intersection where   an accident had been   avoided, the ticking   sound alerted me, but   i had to look down from   the windshield to see   the flashing gold indi-   cater light;   auditory exclusion is   a thing, sometimes some   folks need to be tapped   on the shoulder, we get   so over-focused that   our hearing fails…   clearing the mechanism,   zoning out 50,000 baseball   fans whil attempting to   deliver a 95 mile an hour   fastball to the outside   corner of the plate, while…   some folks need everyone   to be quiet while they’re   putting or serving at tennis,   or merely reading, studying   a menu, etcetra…   canine, feline, or both…   -curiousity ko’d the cat,   because the feline’s   shrinking peripheral   range of vision begins   to deny efficient hearing,   the house cat becomes   so focused that it   cannot detect auditory   intrusions immediately,   like the hu...