omg. i'm directionally challenged too!!! i have no "grid" in my head. generally, i don't know/feel how the streets relate to one another. like, i know they do - i can read a map and figure out how to get places, and i do understand numbered streets go bigger in one direction and smaller in the opposite (except when i get to the "middle" and the numbering starts all over and is the opposite!!) - but i can't fully visualize how the streets are laid out around my route. and i always use directions like left/right and not north/south/etc
people always say things like: go south about a quarter mile, then go east on x street, etc, etc. and i have absolutely no idea what the fuck they are talking about. lately i just tell people that i have my gps and i'm gonna use it but they still keep trying to give me instructions. i just nod and say thanks but it goes in one ear and out the other!
and i am terrible at remembering how to get places until i've navigated the same route at least 4 or 5 times. and then, once i memorize a route, don't ask me to detour 'cause i will get lost. i have nothing in my head that lets me figure out a new route unless the areas is extremely familiar (and that's a very small series of areas which i've driven in for years where)
that's why the gps i got for christmas one year was pretty much the best gift ever!
and well, with my phone - the google navigator is fucking awesome! although i've never tried to talk to it!! i just click it, type in my destination and let it tell me where to turn. i've learned how to see the route info, and future steps and even how to ask for a detour or alternate route choices (like when there is construction or it's telling me to use the expressway and i want to take the streets)
although, the weirdest thing happened today. my friend and i were going to an address (it was 1600 s. oak park) and for some unknown reason the gps on her phone directed her to 13th & maple and declared that it was our destination despite displaying on the screen that it was 1600 s. oak park! we were completely puzzled. and yes! a picture of the destination popped up! it was so weird! i put the address in my phone's gps and it told me how to get to the correct location.
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people always say things like: go south about a quarter mile, then go east on x street, etc, etc. and i have absolutely no idea what the fuck they are talking about. lately i just tell people that i have my gps and i'm gonna use it but they still keep trying to give me instructions. i just nod and say thanks but it goes in one ear and out the other!
and i am terrible at remembering how to get places until i've navigated the same route at least 4 or 5 times. and then, once i memorize a route, don't ask me to detour 'cause i will get lost. i have nothing in my head that lets me figure out a new route unless the areas is extremely familiar (and that's a very small series of areas which i've driven in for years where)
that's why the gps i got for christmas one year was pretty much the best gift ever!
and well, with my phone - the google navigator is fucking awesome! although i've never tried to talk to it!! i just click it, type in my destination and let it tell me where to turn. i've learned how to see the route info, and future steps and even how to ask for a detour or alternate route choices (like when there is construction or it's telling me to use the expressway and i want to take the streets)
although, the weirdest thing happened today. my friend and i were going to an address (it was 1600 s. oak park) and for some unknown reason the gps on her phone directed her to 13th & maple and declared that it was our destination despite displaying on the screen that it was 1600 s. oak park! we were completely puzzled. and yes! a picture of the destination popped up! it was so weird! i put the address in my phone's gps and it told me how to get to the correct location.
ok. i'd better get to bed now!! ttys!!