When I used to teach people how to rock climb and they needed to find a foothold I’d say something like, “There is one near your knee to your left.”. Some would start to move their right foot. Then I’d say, “No your other left”.
Way back in my college days, I knew a guy named Bob (friend of friend). Bob had a fairly large tattoo on his inside left forearm that said “I’m Bob.”
I always found it fairly funny the few times I ran into him… until I found out exactly why he had it. Turns out he had a pretty bad heroin habit, and often forgot who he even was after benders. So he got that tattoo.
You can kind of guess how the story turned out a few years later.
A friend and I used to go on short trips together and we were both bad about turning left and right or east and west when quick decisions needed to be made. We found that saying “your side” or “my side” was the best option.
I’ve never been one who’d be described as “directionally challenged”, though I know a LOT of people who are. I’ve spent my entire life in rural MN & ND, so it’s just natural to me to know my NSEW “cardinal” directions, that was until I travelled to Montreal, Quebec for work. All signs are in French only, and I knew ZERO of the language other than maybe omelette, or crepe. It wasn’t until I was up there for 2-3 days that I made the connections on the road signs…“Le Nord”, “Le Sud”, “Le’Est”, and “Le’Ouest”…Combine that with very French boulevard/route (avenue/street) names…Talk about a stranger in a strange land!! So, I guess if this girl needs the help, she’s now got it, for eternity…it just seems like there’d be much easier ways to accomplish it.
Back in the olden days before GPS, my ex would drive and I would navigate. At least half the time, if we needed to turn left, I would say “Turn right” but point left and vice versa. He quickly learned that the direction I pointed was always accurate, regardless of what I said.
When I used to teach people how to rock climb and they needed to find a foothold I’d say something like, “There is one near your knee to your left.”. Some would start to move their right foot. Then I’d say, “No your other left”.
Way back in my college days, I knew a guy named Bob (friend of friend). Bob had a fairly large tattoo on his inside left forearm that said “I’m Bob.”
I always found it fairly funny the few times I ran into him… until I found out exactly why he had it. Turns out he had a pretty bad heroin habit, and often forgot who he even was after benders. So he got that tattoo.
You can kind of guess how the story turned out a few years later.
A friend and I used to go on short trips together and we were both bad about turning left and right or east and west when quick decisions needed to be made. We found that saying “your side” or “my side” was the best option.
I’ve never been one who’d be described as “directionally challenged”, though I know a LOT of people who are. I’ve spent my entire life in rural MN & ND, so it’s just natural to me to know my NSEW “cardinal” directions, that was until I travelled to Montreal, Quebec for work. All signs are in French only, and I knew ZERO of the language other than maybe omelette, or crepe. It wasn’t until I was up there for 2-3 days that I made the connections on the road signs…“Le Nord”, “Le Sud”, “Le’Est”, and “Le’Ouest”…Combine that with very French boulevard/route (avenue/street) names…Talk about a stranger in a strange land!! So, I guess if this girl needs the help, she’s now got it, for eternity…it just seems like there’d be much easier ways to accomplish it.
Back in the olden days before GPS, my ex would drive and I would navigate. At least half the time, if we needed to turn left, I would say “Turn right” but point left and vice versa. He quickly learned that the direction I pointed was always accurate, regardless of what I said.