Sense of direction

[Dicky Ticker]

According to the Sun today so it must be right
Women and gays don't have such a good sense of direction as hetrosexual males.

Mrs D/T is absolutely hopeless so don't ever ever ask her for directions.
i.e. Local shops 500yds away but when I asked her to point to them she pointed in the complete opposite direction. Bad enough you may say but even crazier considering she may walk there 3-4 times a week

People and sense of direction completely bamboozel me?????????????

Thank god for small mercies such as TOMTOM otherwise she would be lost forever I think

[Caddy2000]

Ah Mac, PC as ever.......:rolleyes:

Sort of notice the same with my girlfriend; I can tell if she's lost because I get a very hysterical phone call. She won't let me direct her to 'safety', but I have to explain exactly where she is so that she can find it on her map....
.... AND she won't have a satnav

[JessicaRabbit]

I have a really excellent sense of direction, but I think it's coz I did orienteering when I was younger. Dan however, has absolutely no sense of direction whatsoever, but he's really good with a map... go figure.

[Dicky Ticker]

Only stating from the paper

[kitkat]

im rubbish at directions. i need to drive to my location about 10 times before i can relax and think I know where im going. yet i do a fair bit of mileage visiting friends down south coast of england. driving to paignton i can take a different route every time. left torquay to meet friend for coffee in plymouth took me 2.5 hours as i went via exeter then some back roads

[Dicky Ticker]

He he -----Perhaps they have a better sense of adventure:)

[Gazza77]

Pet hate of mine is being a passenger in a car with people who won't use common sense with directions. If you're coming to a junction and don't know which way to go then read the roadsigns, that's what they are there for! :smt075

[flibble]

Yep, I'm rubbish with directions most of the time.

If I'm following or driving and some one says turn left, right, left.. blah blah, I'd never remember the route even if I've done it a zillion times.

But for the times I have to make my own way from A to B using a map, It's in-grained and can pretty much remember it everytime.. kinda run on a need to know basis :rolleyes:

[stewie]

Well Ive been trucking for 31 yrs now, UK and continental and without being big headed put me in truck and I can go anywhere without a map or gps and I know precisley where i am at any time, BUT put me in my car or bike and I can get lost on me own drive... which must mean Im straight whilst trucking and a bit light on me feet whilst in charge of other vehicles................

[fizzwheel]

I'm not to bad, Once I've been somewhere once I can usually remember how to get back their again. I used to be able to find my way round Bournemouth without using a map, doesnt sound like much till you try it :D

Liz is much better with maps and navigating than I am though. Which is fine with me :D

[Dicky Ticker]

Its cause your sitting higher up,you can see better:cool:

I've just finished after 30yrs D/T's

[redbouy]

Im good when driving the boat, but i use GPS/DGPS/ intergatered into the charts and radar so I dont hit any thing. I do have a GPS compass as well. plus 2 back ups, oh and paper charts, 3 other things to find me. I look out the windows too, which is nice.

Ok so maybe i get a "little " help:rolleyes:

[phil24_7]

im rubbish at directions. i need to drive to my location about 10 times before i can relax and think I know where im going. yet i do a fair bit of mileage visiting friends down south coast of england. driving to paignton i can take a different route every time. left torquay to meet friend for coffee in plymouth took me 2.5 hours as i went via exeter then some back roads

I live in Plymouth and I can go to either Paington/Torquay or Newquay a different route eveytime without even trying, rarely take the same route twice!!

[dizzyblonde]

mmm prime example is my trip to France. followed Im Indoors down to Dover as he has a marvellous sense of direction to get to places, and a little more experience of long distance mway-riding. Now get to the other side of the pond in Calais and him and our mate said 'you got the directions to Jets, we're following you'

Now bearing in mind I only had a few junction numbers and motorway numbers and a couple of town names to follow and no map, I took us all the way down to Les Nouillers 500 miles down without getting lost....and thats without ever going there before......

So are women really naff with directions?? I think not

[Sean_C]

Well, I'm brilliant with a map, my boss says :)

But, apparently not so good when I'm out on my own. Tried going to my Uncle's house a few miles away and took a very very incredibly scenic route. I always know when I've gone wrong, but I never turn around and go back. I'll try find another way. Found a few good roads that way, but takes me for ever to get where I want to.. :rolleyes:

Probably why I crashed the other day- the other way was an unclassified road in the middle of nowhere. :mad:

That map I bought for the express purpose of putting under my pillion seat is still nowhere near the bike, 2 months later.. :smt011

[MeridiaNx]

left torquay to meet friend for coffee in plymouth took me 2.5 hours as i went via exeter then some back roads

That's quite a detour!

[monkey]

My missus is absolutely terrible. She won't even go to the doctors on here own about 1/2 a mile away. Funny though that she can drive to Cheltenham to see her mate?

I used the Sun in America to navigate and it was ok!
:)

[northwind]

I have a terrible sense of direction, wonder if there's something I'm not telling me :-s But I'm very good at being lost.

[monkey]

I think Northwind needs to take the Gay test that was on here a while ago. Or are you a girl?
:rolleyes:

[northwind]

I think I came out (so to speak) in that test as moderately gay. So you're right, it all points towards a hitherto unrealised homosexual bent (so to speak, again), apart from the whole "having sex with women" thing.

[monkey]

I gather they call people like you "in the closet". God knows why. Surely you don't live in a wardrobe?
:confused:

[laMon]

mmm prime example is my trip to France. followed Im Indoors down to Dover as he has a marvellous sense of direction to get to places, and a little more experience of long distance mway-riding. Now get to the other side of the pond in Calais and him and our mate said 'you got the directions to Jets, we're following you'

Now bearing in mind I only had a few junction numbers and motorway numbers and a couple of town names to follow and no map, I took us all the way down to Les Nouillers 500 miles down without getting lost....and thats without ever going there before......

So are women really naff with directions?? I think not

yeah girl power;)

gimme a compass when cloudy or dark, or I'll follow the sun\\:D/.

[kitkat]

I think I came out (so to speak) in that test as moderately gay. So you're right, it all points towards a hitherto unrealised homosexual bent (so to speak, again), apart from the whole "having sex with women" thing.


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