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I’ll give you directions, but you have to be comfortable with landmarks and slang names for various areas.
“Then turn right at the stab n’ grab, if you reach the Canada lot you’ve go too far.”
Before we had stuff like Google Maps, or any digital navigation service really, nobody could then, either.
Even when asking someone for directions to get to where they live you get the wrong number of stoplights, turns, and so on. Street-names are also a gamble because maybe they (mis)remember that the street they commute on changed four years ago. I would wager that most folks are just not “wired” for this sort of task, and is why (shipping) pilots, trackers, and trail-guides are a thing.
I’m definitely not with majority on this. Every city I’ve lived in, I can navigate decently well by major streets, highways, landmarks, etc. I think it came with the fact that I moved around so much growing up. I always want to feel like I know the area, so I’ll study a map for a couple hours whenever I first move in.
Doesn’t even need to be directions.
“You know, [place], over in [major part of city]?”
“Oh yeah, haha, [major part of city]. (Discretely take out phone because I have no idea where anything is in this city that I have lived in for 20 years)”
That’s a bit sad, honestly.
True.
I struggle with spatial awareness and memory and why wouldn’t I use the amazing achievement that is ubiquitously available GPS service and directions?
It’s so funny, my kids split out exactly half and half, one half of them I could have driven to Miami before they realized we weren’t headed to school, and the other half, if I took a different route would scream “you are going the wrong way!”
Bro how many kids you got
A lot. 4 that I had plus 5 I married into, some of those 5 my husband had adopted, some he’d spawned. Some were already grown when we got together though, so we didn’t have them all in the house (or car) at once.
It’s nice now they are grown because the kids have a good network of siblings and boyfriend/girlfriends, they hang out together and get along, help each other.
Your kin network sounds tiresome.
I don’t “live” in the city, I live in my house, and I only leave to go to college or work. So if want to know where my college or my work are, I’m your man. Otherwise…
One day I was walking about.
Someone said “Excuse me, could you tell me where is (random street)?”
I was like “That sounds familiar, hold on a second.”
Looked it up from the map on my phone.
It’s literally the next street over.
It was about that time I decided people perhaps shouldn’t ask me directions if they value their time.I think that often. Turns out, a lot of people are incapable of looking up information on the internet. So me spending 2 minutes searching it saves someone hours, somehow.
i can give directions very easily. i simply read them off of my phone
google maps is wrong many times considering the number of lanes my locality has
I’m pretty much the same way with places I’ve lived where I had to drive everywhere. My current city though, 6 months after moving here (and 6 months of living car-free) I could give people detailed directions around a significant chunk of the city (the areas where I went).
Same when I moved to a different part of the city and started biking around that part of town.
You’re so much more aware of your surroundings when walking or biking.
Oh, are we the next generation of Boomers imagining bad directions we gave before smartphones solved that issue almost completely?
not really sure I follow what you’re trying to say, but in my experience it’s pretty common for directions to come up in casual conversation. Chatting about traffic and ways to get around it is pretty top tier smalltalk for me because it’s actually helpful to know and isn’t just the copy-paste “how’s your day” “good, yours?” “good.”
I use navigation to go to the grocery store.
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so relatable lmao
I was stopped on the way to work and asked where a particular street was. I had no idea.
I saw it a few minutes later. I had crossed it every day for 20 years.
