2006-09-15 21:44:56 · 11 answers · asked by 96.7 KCAL ROCKS!!! 3 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
Like a few of the other answerers, I have a really great sense of direction. I currently work in the construction industry delivering materials, and trying to find roads that are not even on a map or have street signs is a major pain!! The worst time was when I did check a map and it didn't show that the road was broken and continued in 5 places all with the same name.... needless to say that I went to the one on the map first and was off by about 7 miles from where they were building. I was able to call my office and have them call the contractor, which then got me back on the right track.
I have also driven from Maine to Florida numerous times, and lived in quite a few states on the East Coast. Getting a little lost is part of figuring out where you live. There's nothing wrong with asking directions, it takes more of a man to admit an error. Being pigheaded and continuing to drive will only get you more lost and waste time and gas.... that's basically money, smarten up!!
2006-09-16 05:13:13 · answer #1 · answered by Porterhouse 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello,
I do the Budapest (Hungary)-Stuttgart (Germany) (approx 1000 kms, across Austria, 10 hours with no stop) trip regularly. I always do it during the nights to avoid traffic and heat in the summertime (I roll out after 20:00 pm and arrive in the morning).For fthe first time, on the way to Stuttgart, I missed a sign near Vienna and I entered Vienna instead of going around. It was around 1:00 AM, I spotted two suspicious looking guys and asked them with the windows down, engine runinng. They wanted to show me by getting in and give the instructions, but I wouldn't had a chance against two weighing at least 90 kg's each, even whlist driving, in case they were into something (anyway the car was full with my stuff so I said they would wouldn't fit :D).
The instruction was to go straight on. I lost at least 30 minutes cruising in Vienna and it wasn't good for the consumption either.
I normally use printed maps, for it helps to learn how to orientate yourself. I try to learn the major waypoints and then I write an itiner with the motorway/road/route changes. I also include the cities names where the changes are to do. After that you only have to look at the signs and follow the routes (eg. I use E60, E52, E552/A94, 140, A94, A8, S1, E60/M1 etc. route to get back home). Always try to follow 'routes' passing through various roads. When you know the system, you can't be lost.
American Idol says that the ones making mistakes are girlies.
I think, only girlies like him are afraid of making mistakes, becuase they can't solve them.
(respect to the REAL girlies !!! ;D)
Regards
2006-09-16 09:14:56 · answer #2 · answered by Blazs (Skoda 120GL) 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The worst was toward the beginning of my 18-wheeling career. I ended up in a very tight residential neighborhood at 4 AM with a refrigerated trailer wailing into the night (as if the truck wasn't loud enough). What threw me off was 2 roads in the same area with the same numbers...one was an interstate, the other was a state road. I had just written down the number in my directions. Learned that difference real quick!
* Oh, and to add to this, how did I get out? Very slowly, carefully, and somewhat embarassed!
2006-09-16 18:12:01 · answer #3 · answered by broham85 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Once, when I was driving with my friends, who were from outstation, in my own home town! Can you imagine how embarrassing it is when you lost your way and could find it out, until you have to ask someone at the petrol station for the way back?
I didn't know that the road system in my home town had
changed alot into one-way traffic system when I was away
for about a year. It used to be two-way traffic with lesser roads cars.
I couldn't recognise some new roads and that's where I made
the slip.
2006-09-16 08:43:38 · answer #4 · answered by steplow33 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have very rarely got lost - normaly have CAA/AAA maps I have maped out myself - but once I did trying to get to an amusement park. But did pull over and ask where the heck I was cause I knew I was getting nowhere on my own at that point lol I wasn't that far off and didn't take long to get back on track.
Now as for AI's comment - any man can get lost - but it takes a real man to ask for directions!!
2006-09-16 05:02:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to get disoriented when driving around in DC and the Montgomery County suburbs so I bought a map of DC and I no longer got lost.
2006-09-16 18:57:00 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have a really good internal compass, so though ive been lost it has never been for very long. i always seem to know which direction to go to hit a main road, and once there i am no longer lost. plus, in the city all roads form a grid so it is hard to get lost around here as long as you can sense what direction north is.
2006-09-16 04:55:41 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes! my husband was working out of town on a 6 week project. He was coming home each weekend, but me and our kids still missed him really bad. So we decided to go see him. I got the directions off of map quest.com and they were way off, I ended up approx 75 miles past were he was. So I used my cell phone and called him. And he came to where we were at and we followed him to the location.
lesson learned: Don't trust map quest.com to be accurate.
Buy a map.
2006-09-16 04:52:26 · answer #8 · answered by Kali_girl825 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yea it was not a good experience , Cos you ask people and they just direct you to anywhere they like..You still ask and turn back just keep asking till you get to see a true person that will help you out with directions... It's not a good experience.
2006-09-16 04:52:42 · answer #9 · answered by lilkin_kingboy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not very long cause if i get lost im not afraid to stop and ask for directions.
2006-09-16 04:46:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋