Think fast

For some reason I'm having this memory of a game my father used to play with me and my brother to test our reflexes and our situational awareness.

Sometimes when we were walking into the room with two glasses of water in our hands for our parents, my dad would throw a small pillow to see our reactions. Whether we drop the class and catch the pillow or ignore the pillow and keep the glasses safe. The other scenario was that he would throw something valuable at us while we were not holding anything valuable and he would see if we would catch the valuable and breakable thing or hold onto the invaluable t-shirt or whatever we were holding. I found it quite an interesting way to test our reflexes.

Regardless, after the first time i dropped the glass, I never failed to do exactly what was expected of me.