I guess some of us just have that built-in GPS. Even before we got one, I could take a map and get us anywhere we wanted to go. We have driven many places, gotten lost a couple of times, but I always knew I could find our way. When my daughter was little and we got lost on a trip, it was like instant diarrhea. She acted like we were never going to find our way home! Now, I think she inherited my sense of direction because she is pretty darn good at remembering how to get places. When we did go on a trip, I was the navigator. And if it was a long trip and we took turns driving, I was the driver AND the navigator because my husband would instantly fall asleep. He was trying to find his way home from a town about an hour from here. He was plugging in the information (which he really doesn’t know how to do) into the GPS WHILE DRIVING! He called me and he said ‘It says Aberdeen, MD’. I thought for a split second “oh…just go there!” We live in MA.
I always thought it was because I was so nosy that I knew right away how to go places. I had to see and know everything about where we were going. I was always looking out the window when in the car and, I guess, taking mental notes. But I also have a photographic memory, so I think that might help too.
The reason I asked the question? My husband was totally lost about 9.3 miles from our house trying to find my daughter at her friend’s house. It was the next town over. I plugged the address into the GPS for him. I didn’t think it could have been any easier. Well, I bet even Chrissy (the name we gave the lady on the GPS) was getting upset with him!!! He called me and said ‘I’m lost.’ “where?” ‘on Woodland Street’ “Oh! Like I know where the @#$%^ Woodland Street is?? Can you give me a landmark or something!!!????” It took me 45 minutes to direct him to my daughter.