I loved the show MASH... BUT....

[arewethereyet]

Looking back at it now, being older and wiser, I hate the Radar character. Not the fact he was kind and gentle, I loved that part. But the bullshit motif that he could feel things coming and "read people's minds".

I used to be a dishwasher at a breakfast place. I hated that the dishes would pile up because the wait staff would bring everything in at the same time. I got tired of waiting, and went out and bused the tables myself. The owner resisted at first, but accepted me doing it, because it made things easier on the wait staff, and it kept me happy because things wouldn't pile up on me.

But, after a while of doing that, the staff would say stupid shit after I cleared a table and say, "You read my mind". Or when I brought them more clean glasses or mugs, same thing. I hated that shit. NO I DID NOT READ YOUR MIND, I simply looked and did.

As lovable as that character was, nobody has magic super powers. 

People who think like that really are falling for selection bias and sample rate error. As well as I did my job, there were also times when I could not get to a table before the wait staff did.

Henry Blake was a good guy but a disorganized twit when it came to some things.  Radar was the one who paid attention to things around him and got things done when they needed to be done, if not before.

The only slightly 'magical' thing was his ability to hear choppers before anyone else.  Maybe he just had really good hearing or was more tuned in than others.