Are you directionally challenged?

Are you directionally challenged?

  • yes~ but my vehicle has a compass

  • no~I can find anything, just tell me north, south, etc

  • yes~ when I am in an unfamiliar area.

  • I could not find my way out of a wet paper bag.


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Michie

<font color=red>Yes, I admit it --- I'm the reason
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:confused3 Are you directionally challenged? When I give out directions to people, I will say... go north 2 blocks, turn east...blah, blah, blah... and 9 times out of 10 they will say, just tell me right or left. :confused3 :confused3 Well, it depends on which way you are coming from :crazy: And then there are folks who can't figure out which way the numbered blocks run... :confused3 :confused3 Or street names or which highway they will be on :confused3 :confused3


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I guess I am!

I only use North/South/East/West on major roads like Interstate 95, Route 1, Route 50, etc. If I'm telling someone how to get from my house to the mall (which is a 10 minute drive), I will tell them to turn right or left and specific intersections. I find that people (including myself) don't really know the direction of the tertiary streets.
 
when i GIVE OUT directions i am horrible at it.......

BUT- if i have a map (usually when DH is drining) i do pretty good--- the secret is....you have to "step into the map"! :rotfl2: (FRIENDS episode ;) ) it really works!
 

Nope, I am great at directions. But I would rather get left and right turns..just seems easier to me :)
 
I have quite possibly the worst sense of direction in the world! :teeth:

Seriously, I could definitely use a GPS system, but until they come down in price that won't be happening. Luckily my dad is like a human atlas, so I always call him when I'm lost (which is at least once a month, LOL).
 
Christine said:
I guess I am!

I only use North/South/East/West on major roads like Interstate 95, Route 1, Route 50, etc. If I'm telling someone how to get from my house to the mall (which is a 10 minute drive), I will tell them to turn right or left and specific intersections. I find that people (including myself) don't really know the direction of the tertiary streets.

:thumbsup2 Yep, me, too. DH will tell me, "Turn north on Such and Such a Street." I look at him blankly and tell him that when I'm in rush hour traffic, I don't have time to get out and check the moss on the trees. Just a right or left will work for me. :lmao:
 
no problems getting anywhere. I use to worry and get lost...then I had lasik surgery now I'm 20/15...and I work for the telephone co. so I had to travel all over the country installing equipment. They would give you an address and say "go"... so I'd have to find some crazy places... I stopped worrying b/c... hey, I'm getting paid..who cares when I get there! That was when I was 19... and 10 years ago. I don't worry about getting lost at all. I just print a mapquest and off I go :) I love to travel!!!
 
Umm..yes, I am but I have gotten TONS better.

However, we were taught bizarrely for North & South so it took me forever to figure it out & I have to think about it sometimes.

We were always taught that in front of you is North (so forever, I thought whatever way I was going was North & behind me was South). We used to have to stand up & point forward for North, South, East & West (this was probably 2nd or 3rd grade -- even though when we were pointing forward we were actually pointing West due to how our school was situated). Now that I'm grown, I realize that is how it is on a map they were teaching but it got ingrained in my brain that pointing forward is North.

Now, I know South is going toward where my childhood house is & going North is away from that (since we lived on a State Highway and our address had south in it! So, if you go past that house, you are going South).

Then I got the point of if I'm heading toward the city we are going East (if you go too far East of Chicago you end up in water! ROFL!) and if we were going away from the city it's West.

I didn't know Interstates followed E/W & N/S patterns until DH told me about even numbers going E/W & odd numbers going N/S. THAT has helped.

I still do usually need the turn Left or Right though, especially when you are talking side streets, etc... Usually I just ask them main streets they are coming from and can give directions out that way and usually use the Left/Right along with landmarks. You will pass this store or that since it helps especially if you are going to be on a road for a bit since sometimes you wonder if you went too far or not (I know I do when driving).

I can read a map though so if I got really, really lost I suppose I could figure it out one way or another.

UNLESS I'm driving in cornfields in the dark and can't find a street name to save my life (that happened to us coming back from Disney!). The police blocked the road we were on & made us turn. We were clueless & I hadn't the foggiest idea where we were (other than a paved road through the cornfields, who knew there were even roads back there!) nor what any of the cross streets were. I was desperately looking at the map for "If you see this street or that one, we can get back"...FINALLY found a sign that if we took the road we could connect to other ones we knew. Nothing like getting lost an hour from your home after driving to FL without a problem. :rotfl2:
 
Ok this is weird. I was never directionally challenged. When travelling I am always the navigator and can get us out of a traffic jam with common sense and my directional skills. BUT we moved to Houston (actually Kingwood) Texas 4 years ago and I can not get a handle on where N, S, E, W is in my neighborhood. I jsut can not figure out why. Even when I have a compass and the sun I can't reconcile what they say and what my directional sense says. :confused3 I have gotten so lost in my own neighborhood so many times. I got lost just yesterday going to the local bike shop which I've been too a hundred times. Dh says that because this area has an extremely high iron content in this area and maybe my directional sense is messed up when I'm here. I think it's the Twilight Zone. :goodvibes Once I get out of my immediate community I'm fine.
 
My mother and I couldn't find the beach.
I grew up on Long Island... it's surrounded by water. :rolleyes1

I have been directionally challenged all my life...
 
I have an almost scary sense of direction. Back in 1994, my sister and I took a road trip to Norfolk, Virginia. We left RI at 11:00pm and hit the road. She fell asleep. I drove the whole way. At 9:00 am the next morning, we were parked at our hotel. She still wonders how I managed it without stopping to ask for directions or getting lost.

Now she on the other hand...terrible with directions. Just two weeks ago she was driving from Maryland to Massachusetts with her husband and she managed to get lost...even though she's done the same trip a number of times before.

My father and I have all the map-reading and direction skills. My sisters and my mother didn't get that gene.
 
a long time ago (when DH was DBF) we were coming home from six flags and lost somewhere out in jersey......DH got pulled over for speeding and he told the cop he was speeding b/c he was LOST! :lmao: and he didnt get a ticket- :rotfl:

we still crack up after 20 years with THAT excuse! :rotfl2:
 
I can't find my way out of a wet paper bag. :blush:
 
I can read a map, but as far as natural sense of direction goes, I have NONE. I literally have nightmares about getting lost. I've actually had people who don't know me well assume I must not be very intelligent. It's so bad that it almost seems like some kind of learning disability, but I don't have difficulty in other areas so what's the deal? :confused3
 
Michie said:
:confused3 Are you directionally challenged? When I give out directions to people, I will say... go north 2 blocks, turn east...blah, blah, blah... and 9 times out of 10 they will say, just tell me right or left. :confused3 :confused3 Well, it depends on which way you are coming from :crazy: And then there are folks who can't figure out which way the numbered blocks run... :confused3 :confused3 Or street names or which highway they will be on :confused3 :confused3


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OK, I admit that I'm terrible with directions and I'm completely confused. Can you please explain how on earth you know which direction you're going in? I would be able to do it in the early morning or evening by the position of the sun, but is there some other way to do this? Can some people really just sense what direction they're facing?
 

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