Sense of Direction.
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Apparently, sense of direction runs in the family.
My sister T is absolutely terrible with directions. In one particular story, she went to a friend’s wedding rehearsal. After the rehearsal they were all headed over to a restaurant for dinner. She brought directions. In fact, she was the only one to bring directions. A few of her friends were looking for instructions on how to get there so Tree copied the directions and passed them out to virtually everyone.
Everyone pulled out of the parking lot and everyone arrived at the restaurant – except Theresa. She got horribly horribly lost.
well, if I didn’t already know, last night was a great indicator of my equally poor self-location skills. I went over to a classmate’s house in Avon to work on a project. We finished up around 10:45ish, and I left to head home. This is where I needed to go:
I took my turns, and got on what I thought was CT-177South. It was, instead, CT-167N.
I got lost. After 30 minutes I was able to get myself turned around and back on track. But by this time, I’d nearly run out of gas so I stopped in New Britain to fill up the tank. I had heard rumors that Darcy, Viv, and Irene were gathered at Irene’s place for a movie so I stopped by and enjoyed some nachos and banter before heading out again – at which point I promptly got lost in downtown New Britain. Driving down alleys and random one-way streets, I eventually got back to route 9. Only to find myself going the wrong direction on route 9. Thankfully I quickly fixed this error, turned around and was immediately pulled over for a headlight being out.
Ugh. what an annoying night.
I finally got to bed at 2am. This was my path:
sigh. My next big purchase was going to be a watch – it looks like it will be a GPS instead.
2:07 pm
I have nothing but good things to say about the TOM TOM that Tyler gave us.
I find that I go exploring a bit more now and just look for new parks and detour around traffic just because we know its gonna be easy to find another way to get there!
The one we got does text to speech for the street names as well, which is useful most of the time and unintentionally funny that other part. It also lets you build routes ahead of time and import things from your PC, which is neat.
Let me know if you have questions on it.
Let me know if you need research assistance.
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2:47 pm
3:17 pm
1) Maybe if you tried orienteering, your sense of direction would get better. Your likely response is, “Why would I enjoy orienteering if I have a bad sense of direction?” My response is, “You probably won’t.”
2) Or, you could get a watch with a GPS. That watch won’t help you with directions, though. But, it will…
3) …record when you’re an idiot while orienteering. Here‘s me, from an event in Canada in May. It’s about 100 yards from #16 to #17.
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5:10 pm
Yes I was. Way to go!
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6:58 pm
WOW… “I promptly got lost in downtown New Britain. Driving down allies…”
I have to assume you either hate women named Allie, or you don’t like compatriots.
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7:18 am
hehehe….nice
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8:05 am
8:10 am
Tom and I have a Tom Tom too, we got it for Christmas. I didn’t really want it at first, but I love it now. Although I still refuse to mount it in the car and have it on all the time. I leave it in the cupholder when I’m using it.
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9:58 am
If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t notice anything was spelled wrong. I was just jerky enough to point it out to you when it was pointed out to me. Next time I shall be more discreet my friend.
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10:03 am
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10:56 am
So how did you either go back in time or forward in time? I’d be more interested in that instead of your lack of direction. Please explain. Thanks!
Oh and did you get a ticket, or did you use your womanly wiles to talk your way out of it?
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