I’m not trying to defend someone not knowing the directions without GPS, but I often use my Waze app for “incidents” like cars broken down on the route, cops trying to get their quota for speeding, heavy traffic or accidents so I can find another route, etc. I hate sitting still in traffic. My husband hates it even more.
I will say that I don’t use Waze on my usual routes, but if I hit a slow down, it’s my go to to find out what happened ahead of me and how long it will take.
And yes, I can read a paper map better than most men (or women especially). I don’t need GPS. My family traveled cross country by car every summer for vacation. I learned how to read a map by the time I was 10, and I’m a very good navigator. I can often find my correct direction without a map, so I might have an internal compass somehow.
” I can often find my correct direction without a map, so I might have an internal compass somehow. “
I’m like that, too, but it doesn’t work as well when I’m with other people.
But alone — almost mystical. I remember as a 16 or 17 year old — two separate trips — getting off subways in London and Mexico City at the wrong stops, then making my way back on surface streets although it wasn’t straightforward at all and I couldn’t remember the name of where I was going. And back in time for dinner!