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davester wrote:
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I do not know a single woman who can tell me which way is North, South, East, or West, or could find out without a compass (or GPS)...
I think that the women you know have great senses of direction and you are the one who is always lost even though you are certain that you know the right direction.
Actually there has been research that suggested that there is a difference between the way men and women navigate, with women being more likely to rely on landmarks.
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rgG wrote:
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Forgive me, but I am going to say something chauvinistic but true. I do not know a single woman who can tell me which way is North, South, East, or West, or could find out without a compass (or GPS)...
perhaps we'll meet someday...
My husband will freely tell you that he has no sense of direction and that I always have been and always will be the navigator in our family. He will often poInt in the opposite direction of the place he is talking about, so yeah, I think I might have a better grip of NSEW than he does. Also, I tend to notice where the sun sets and rises, without a GPS or compass.
I reaized once I started to travel that I had subconsciously come up with an imaginary east and west reference in my head along the way. Apparently east was an image in my head of the Atlantic Ocean, and west was in imaginary image in my head of the Rockies. When I'm east of the Atlantic, or west of the Rockies, I have to fight not to flip east and west. I wonder if something like this is going on with your husband?
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"I reaized once I started to travel that I had subconsciously come up with an imaginary east and west reference in my head along the way." - Black
I did that in New Orleans. I thought the lake was the gulf or somehow thought north was south. I couldn't shake it. Of course, it didn't help that the jerks down there (even old people) gave me wrong directions on purpose.
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DP wrote:
Forgive me, but I am going to say something chauvinistic but true. I do not know a single woman who can tell me which way is North, South, East, or West, or could find out without a compass (or GPS)...
We DO exist. I am an excellent navigator, even w/o a compass or GPS. I do not get lost. If I've been to a place once, I'll always know how to get back to it. For instance - while visiting an out of town friend 15 years ago, he took me to an Indian restaurant that he liked. I thought it was fantastic. 5 years later, I again found myself in his city (he had moved by this time). Not even having a clue as to where the restaurant was, I followed my instincts and found it again - without making ANY wrong turns.
On the flip side, my fiancé has the worst sense of direction. He's lucky to have me 
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I worked with a guy who wanted to drive his wife's new mustang from Dallas to El Paso. She wanted to fly so he dropped her at the airport in big D. A couple of joints into the trip he went the wrong way at the fork in I-20 and didn't realize what he'd done until he was in downtown Lubbock and stopped to ask directions to " the airport" to pick her up. Only then did he figure out he had driven about 6 hours in the wrong direction, and about 10 hours from his wife.
He was a little late for her arrival in El Paso.
But he was a dope, and a doper.
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Black wrote:
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I do not know a single woman who can tell me which way is North, South, East, or West, or could find out without a compass (or GPS)...
I think that the women you know have great senses of direction and you are the one who is always lost even though you are certain that you know the right direction.
Actually there has been research that suggested that there is a difference between the way men and women navigate, with women being more likely to rely on landmarks.
very true in my experience. My ex-wife and present GF only navigate by landmarks.
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Dennis S wrote:
"I reaized once I started to travel that I had subconsciously come up with an imaginary east and west reference in my head along the way." - Black
I did that in New Orleans. I thought the lake was the gulf or somehow thought north was south. I couldn't shake it. Of course, it didn't help that the jerks down there (even old people) gave me wrong directions on purpose.
Sorry about that. We Southerners have a bad habit of giving directions using landmarks that haven't existed for twenty years or more. We don't do that on purpose, it's just a part of our nature to recall the water tower we climbed in high school or the K-Mart where we bought our first record as still being there even though they've both long since been torn down or repurposed.
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