How good is your sense of direction?
Do you need to constantly fumble with the map and/or GPS or all you just need to make a quick glance to find out where you’re going?
I was blessed/cursed with two parents who each had the polar opposite sense of direction. My dad (till Alzheimers took it away) was one who seemed to have an internal GPS and rarely got lost. If he could read a map and drive he would have (strangely my dad disliked GPS and stuck with maps – he never used the GPS we bought him one year.) Meanwhile mom, well, at least she could read a map. This led to some loud angry arguments between the two and ruined many a long road trip for us kids as my dad (like me) can be intense and my mom (like me) can be quite argumentative.
This happened often till I was around 12 when my dad made me road trip navigator after he found out I had a decent sense of direction and could read a map (or so it was to stop me from annoying him… pretty sure it was both.)
Things aren’t always great direction wise. When I get lost, I really get lost. Once I was late to a friends get together because I zigged when I should have zagged and lost a good hour and a half zooming over back country roads. Usually happens when it is the first time going somewhere. I guess that’s why they invented GPS…
Or anything else you want to rant about? Open thread/threat time!
I do not have a great sense of direction, but at least I have the common sense to pull over and try to figure things out. I’m fine with backtracking and restarting if necessary. I’ll ask for directions too. It’s not like I’m running into that random stranger again and I’ll find out they were mocking me.
When I am lost, I do ask for directions because it is probably the most sane thing to do. Better than wandering for hours… like the example above (there was no one around to ask for directions.)
I’m decent with directions. Not great, not horrible.
I do have an inherent skill at navigating shopping malls. That’s a gift.
Bloody mazes, some of them.
The same architects as casinos.
As long as there’s sun or stars I can do alright finding my way. If it’s cloudy, I’m fucked.
By the way, there is a kickass moon out tonight. It’s lighting up the whole farm. I can see the sheep in the fields by moonlight alone.
Not one damn drone though. I went out hoping to see one. There have been sightings in SW Virginia according to the local news.
no sense of direction me…i get lost in buildings if they are big enough and outdoors its anyones guess which direction i end up thinking is right but isnt….
really the only reason im not in need of rescue most days is that i can back track perfectly….you know…once i come to the conclusion im lost enough that it stops being fun
course nowadays i has a phone with maps…which i can read…so i can usually get myself unlost again without needing to backtrack
so hey progress!
I once talked to a guy (oh no…here it comes) who was a GPS engineer. He said, “And we’re going to make it personal one day. Walking along a street, being inside a building, you’ll never experience being lost again.” “I think that would be a loss, though. And if I’m walking down a street in London, let’s say, and I want to go to a coffee shop—” “There would be sponsors, of course, to make the program affordable.” “So your program would direct me to the nearest Caffè Nero but not the coffeehouse that Samuel Johnson haunted.” “Right, probably.”
I need a compass, even if I’m staring into the sun.