Adventures With Numbers

When it comes to numbers, I think I'm dyslexic. Not with words. I never look at a word and have my brain transpose letters, but I can look at a number--even a short one--and see the numbers mixed up.

It can make things like balancing my checkbook a challenge and I have to double check amounts when I'm paying bills. It's way too easy for $12.99 to become $19.29. When I used to pay by check in stores, it's led to more than one embarrassing moment when the number in digits didn't match the nu...