01-17-2013, 05:43 PM
Dennis S wrote: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.
"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.