If you're anything like me, you might sometimes struggle with getting anywhere because you have a hard time with directions, and you get lost even when you have been to a place a thousand times. I now present to you a list of nine things that only directionally challenged people understand.
1. Your phone’s GPS is your lifesaver.
You would probably never go anywhere new if not for your phone’s GPS. The tinny, automated voice has guided you on many a journey, whether it be to an entirely new city, or just to the grocery store beacuse you forgot how to get there.
2. Even if you are using a GPS, you still have to call your friend every time you go to their house to make sure you have the right address.
Because what good is my GPS if I don't actually know my end destination?
3. If someone insists on giving you directions, landmarks are 1000 times more helpful than Cardinal directions.
“Turn left at the blue house with the swing in the front yard” is something I can (probably) do. “Head east on fifth street” might as well be Greek to me.
4. Words like “east”, “west”, “north”, and “south” mean nothing to you.
I failed that geography unit in fifth grade and I am still unable to grasp the concept 9 years later.
5. Sometimes you confuse your right with your left or your left with your right.
I am not ashamed to admit that I will hold my hands up to see which thumb and forefinger make an “L” when I am severely confused.
6. You're always (unintentionally) discovering new parts of your city.
As soon as you know a place well enough that you're lulled into a false sense of directional security, you will convince yourself that you don't really need your GPS to get around. But you will be wrong, and you will take a wrong turn, and suddenly you'll be in a part of your city that you didn't even know existed.
7. You still get lost, even when going to places you've been a thousand times.
The last time I visited my grandparents in kalispell, I overshot the turnoff to their road by about five miles. The most embarrassing part of that is that it took me five miles to realize that I had taken the wrong turn.
8. You have an equally hard time giving directions as you do recieving them.
I'm better off just giving you my address so you can map it yourself, because I am incapable of giving people coherent directions.
