I often get food delivery people asking if I know where X number apartment is in my building when I’m out walking my dogs. Man, I don’t fucking even remember my own number half the time. All I can say that if you’re looking for 1 but you’re way the fuck over by 120, you are on the exact opposite side of the complex that you need to be.
I’ll give you directions, but you have to be comfortable with landmarks and slang names for various areas.
“Easy, just go down to the park where they have the pumpkin festival in summer, then turn right. At the greengrocer’s, well, where it used to be, I think they built something else there now? Anyway, cross the street there, and right before you reach Maggie’s yard, say hello to her, will you? you’ll have to go down to that other place, I forgot the name but they have the best chocolate cake you’ve ever tasted…”
Grandma please, just tell me the address!
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What’s really fun is asking someone like that directions in an emergency. You’ll get the same winding explanation, but in triplicate, all at once, since the fastest route is one of those depending on a half-dozen seemingly unrelated factors.
Humans lose their sense of direction when they’re driving. Spend time in a walkable city, you’ll learn the names of all the streets and squares.
People never get a sense of direction of they never train it. Regardless of mode of transportation or how you navigate or determine position.
I feel inclined to agree, since i walk my city for +30 years and act like the kitty irl
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.”
so relatable lmao
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.
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
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.
top tip: explore. it’s pretty fun to purposefully take wrong turns and just learn what’s out there just out of eyesight
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Played a keep the flow, right turn on red game in San Francisco… made every right turn on every red I got. So many beautiful unique homes abound!
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…
When I was about 12, someone asked me for directions as he was going around in circles in his car. I gave him directions which I later found out was several miles in the opposite direction.
I’m 36 and I still think about this. I hope he found his destination…
Maybe he is still driving to this day.So true hahah
I feel dumb whenever people are telling me road names, of even major roads. Like, I know the turns to take to get to a couple regular places, who’s got the time to check out the street sign while watching traffic/turning?
You don’t hear the road names when your GPS tells you where to turn? I’m shocked by how many people are unfamiliar with major roads in their city. I’ve met people who couldn’t even tell me what crossroads they lived at. To me, part of learning to drive meant making a note of the road names near me so I was familiar with locations based on road names.
I’m not old either, I’m in my early 20s.
Which savage listens to the gps? Turning off the sound is the first thing I do. Although I have been considering getting a snoop dogg voiced gps or maybe Douglas Hedley (the philosophy professor from Cunk).
My GPS stays silent. Glancing at the map is less distracting for me.
I live in the country - I know what road I live on and the couple connecting roads, but not the roads around the city a ways away that has my regular places, or the big highways I’ve not really had much reason to use. I don’t really drive all that much, and once I learned how to get to my usual places from the GPS (which did say the names) then I knew which turns to take and didn’t need it, so I never heard the names after that. They’ve just not been all that relevant to me getting places unless someone tries to give me directions that way, where it’s almost always easier just to have an address.
Granted I’m not much of a fan of driving really, I avoid it if I can which makes being in the middle of nowhere a bit more inconvenient heheheh
