Where'd they go???

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri May 27, 2005 9:24 pm

Do you know anyone really, REALLY bad at following directions?

I just gave instructions to someone who was, literally, right across the street from my house using a store phone to call for directions. She got lost. I pretty much told her to cross the street and go left to about the sixth house down. She went around the block a few times and we finally saw her wandering up the street looking dazed. WTF?

mominiowa · Post by **mominiowa** » Fri May 27, 2005 9:39 pm

Koan......this is a VERY important question....

"WHAT COLOR WAS HER HAIR" :wah:

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri May 27, 2005 9:49 pm

Unfortunately, a nondescript brown. She could be anywhere now.

Agnes · Post by **Agnes** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:02 pm

koan, you have a way with words and ideas, i understand.. :-3

Agnes · Post by **Agnes** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:28 pm

sign language? Pocahantis would know. ARROW & BOW that-Way...follow.....

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:32 pm

You STILL spelled it wrong.

:rolleyes:

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:39 pm

I've been given really, REALLY bad directions too. That's why I always carry a road map and get the street address first.

We're talking...if ya get to the red barn, you've gone too far. Ya wanna go back and take a left. Then ya keep goin down dat road til you see the Macs. If ya see that, you've gone too far. Ya wanna go back and....

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:52 pm

you actually drive people where they are going so you don't have to give directions? :wah:

Agnes · Post by **Agnes** » Fri May 27, 2005 10:57 pm

the spelling doesn't matter it is Pocahontas, thats it! INDIAN warrior woman--fighter...BITCH Hunter! :-3

Agnes · Post by **Agnes** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:01 pm

computer tired..no respond..knife eye out! OUCH! please.

koan · Post by **koan** » Fri May 27, 2005 11:58 pm

LOL

I think I know how you feel. There was a coworker once who asked directions how to get back to the highway from the jobsite. I watched two people try to explain it to her for about five minutes, walked away, came back fifteen minutes later. They had been through two attempted map drawings and were still trying. I decided to give it a go and jumped in. I limited myself to two minutes then ran away. I kid you not...another twenty minutes later I walked by and three other people were trying to tell the same woman the same thing. I would rather just tell her to follow me.

koan · Post by **koan** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:14 am

I was organizing a baby shower for a friend a couple of years ago and invited about 14 people who were able to attend. All of them arrived on time at the described location except one. Most of these people I didn't know and about half of them did not know the location. Yet they all arrived safely except this woman. She, apparently, drove around for two hours before she finally gave up and went home. She phoned once for another set of directions. We didn't know what happened to her until the next day. Frankly, I still don't know what happened to her. :wah:

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Sat May 28, 2005 1:28 am

Agnes wrote: the spelling doesn't matter it is Pocahontas, thats it! INDIAN warrior woman--fighter...BITCH Hunter! :-3PAULA, would you like to enlighten us all as to what you're talking about?

cars · Post by **cars** » Sat May 28, 2005 5:31 am

When I'm going somewhere that I don't know the directions, I always look it up on line on "MAPQUEST". Saves having to stop and ask directions on the road!

Agnes · Post by **Agnes** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:38 am

map quest, the BEST. works all the time! :-2

john8pies · Post by **john8pies** » Sat May 28, 2005 7:52 am

I sympathise. I`m from London where it is very very difficult t o `follow directions` because of all of the blocked off roads, one way streets, diversions, road works, etc. Then I move down here and lo and behold the road I now live in is closed off half way down it and the other half is one way only. So if anybody asks me where I live and they are literally standing more than 6 houses away, I have to say, "Drive in the opposite direction from where I live. Turn left, turn first right, drive up that road, turn first left, follow the road as it swings round and voila, oh,by the way, you`re 30 feet away at the moment!" Going in the opposite direction is even worse, as it`s "follow the road round, turn first right, follow the road down, turn right, turn second right, follow the one way system and stop about 30 feet from where you are now." D`oh!!!

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sat May 28, 2005 8:47 am

When I worked at a store, I'd give directions all the time. It drove me crazy when I'd say turn left at the light and would see them turn right!

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Sat May 28, 2005 9:02 am

when i worked as a copper in the keys....i did terrible things. in the movie "true lies" the seven mile bridge was blown up quite realistically. so the touristas would ask me how to get to lower keys and key west...i used to tell them they couldn't! BAD lady cop! LOL

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Philadelphia Eagle · Post by **Philadelphia Eagle** » Sat May 28, 2005 2:08 pm

koan wrote: Do you know anyone really, REALLY bad at following directions?

I just gave instructions to someone who was, literally, right across the street from my house using a store phone to call for directions. She got lost. I pretty much told her to cross the street and go left to about the sixth house down. She went around the block a few times and we finally saw her wandering up the street looking dazed. WTF?

Koan - that is hilarious! I haven't been able to stop laughing since I first read it!

nvalleyvee · Post by **nvalleyvee** » Sat May 28, 2005 2:15 pm

koan wrote: Do you know anyone really, REALLY bad at following directions?

I just gave instructions to someone who was, literally, right across the street from my house using a store phone to call for directions. She got lost. I pretty much told her to cross the street and go left to about the sixth house down. She went around the block a few times and we finally saw her wandering up the street looking dazed. WTF?

Go left was the problem. You must have meant her "other left". :wah:

Philadelphia Eagle · Post by **Philadelphia Eagle** » Sat May 28, 2005 2:20 pm

I once stopped and asked for directions in another country.

I asked a passerby if he knew the way to a certain town.

He looked puzzled for a moment - then he said 'Yes! indeed I do!' and walked away! :-5

koan · Post by **koan** » Sat May 28, 2005 3:43 pm

Koan - that is hilarious! I haven't been able to stop laughing since I first read it! I was strangely livid when it happened but I can laugh about it now.

Go left was the problem. You must have meant her "other left".
Foreseeing this problem I even told her "with your back to the store" so she would get the correct left.

He looked puzzled for a moment - then he said 'Yes! indeed I do!' and walked away!
Perhaps he knew the quickest way and didn't want to clutter the path by giving out the information. :wah:

valerie · Post by **valerie** » Sat May 28, 2005 9:09 pm

nvalleyvee wrote: Go left was the problem. You must have meant her "other left". :wah:My dad used to play a "Game" with me when I was a little girl, calling out

right or left and if I stuck the wrong hand out I got it swatted! Learned

pretty darn fast, I must say.

I usually tell people "driver's side" or "passenger's side" in case they don't

know right from left.

:yh_wink :yh_giggle

Peg · Post by **Peg** » Sat May 28, 2005 9:12 pm

I used to work in a pizza shop and we had a delivery person that just could not understand that odd numbered houses were on one side of the street, even numbers on the other side. Needless to say, he didn't work there long.

koan · Post by **koan** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:14 pm

Don't know how or why I found this thread again. It was about getting lost, so there ya go.

I saw Scary Movie 4 recently and they had this scene where the heroine is given directions written in blood on the wall. She squints and says "I can't read that!" It reforms into a google map. lol.

guppy · Post by **guppy** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:18 pm

i am bad on directions too. reminds me when i used to ask my husband what he wanted from taco bell. he finally got smart enough to tell me what he wanted for breakfast...........................

:rolleyes: :driving:

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 3:24 am

I'm pretty good with directions, but my parents are hopeless. My mum would have the map upside down and forget any directions I would give her, and my dad would just ignore them completely, go his own direction that he feels is right, then get lost, and then have the nerve of blaming me, because I told him to go that way!! :-5