I’m an excellent map reader. That does not translate into being good at “sensing” direction. If I know where I am, have a map, I can go anywhere. But why bother? I have a GPS that tells me step by step what to do.
My husband loved maps but was only so so at directions. They problem with men is that they are unwilling to ask because they are unwilling to admit they don’t know.
That's nice.
Until the battery dies.
GPS is wonderful; it's a poor substitute for awareness.
My wife can't even follow a GPS that talks to her.... I think her operating system came pre-programed to not take advice.....
I don't believe, for most men, that it's about "admitting" we don't know. I believe it's more about proving we can figure it out.
It's in our nature to fix stuff. If we are lost, that is just another form of broke. Time to fix what is broke.
Women have a problem, they talk about.
Women talk about their problem to a man, he wants to fix it.
Man tries to fix womans problem...now man has a new problem.
” I have a GPS that tells me step by step what to do.”
I was going into the hospital to have a camera shoved into me. I wasn’t allowed to drive because of the anesthesia. A friend drove me. He had GPS. We were driving, following the GPS directions, and I said, “Bobby! This thing is sending us to the West Side. The hospital is in the East Side suburbs. I got him to turn around, although he wanted to follow the GPS directions. We made it to the East Sise hospital with a couple minutes to spare. I don’t completely trust GPS!
Yup. When we first got our GPS; the thing carried us down
an old road that turned into a muddy cow path where we
could not turn around - so we had to go forward hoping
we would not get stuck. At one point, we were looking down
into a ravine on our right. I don’t know how we got out of
there. We ended up finding the place. We’d been there before
several years ago; only this time it wasn’t a business. I
had to go in and use the bathroom; then I don’t know what
we did.
Have you ever tried to get an address for your GPS entry from a woman?
Just hope the cell phone battery is charged up, ‘cuz the question ‘what is the address?’ is entirely foreign to a woman.
Normally it’s faster to go through the ‘turn at the third clothing store on the right, you know the one that has those great sales, murmuring OK.
Then when they say we are the fourth house on the left, the one with the matching garage doors.
That’s your chance, that’s when you ask, and what is the address at that house?
They’ll still hesitate, but realize that it’s easier to answer than to go through the whole 5 minutes directions again.