The directionless wonders

[Skarredmind]

Hahaha I feel your pain. I posted one here a while ago (I think) where someone was calling for directions to my hotel, from "Where I am now!" Sir, I have no idea where you are now... "I just passed a popular gas station that is pretty much on every other street corner around here!" He got REALLY mad (and abusive) because I couldn't magically divine his location...

I had another one the other night that wanted directions from [different state than I am in's] turnpike. He also got mad, apparently part of my job as a front desk person is to know directions here from any given place on earth.

[Pagan]

I don't know what it is, but anytime I give people directions to my apartment, they invariably get lost. Because they don't follow the directions I give them. A friend picked me up last Sunday (went to hear Dr. Khaled Hosseini talk, truly interesting man). She's the first person that has successfully found my place with my directions. I was telling her nobody else had and she can't figure out why, what I told her was perfectly clear!

The one I can't figure out though, is one of my friends that got lost. Not only had she been here before, she used to live at the other end of the complex!

*sigh* I hated giving directions over the phone. People would be calling asking for directions to... the store. We were the repair center and nowhere near the store! Call the STORE. Do you happen to know where the University Mall is? No, no, not the one with the Dillards! Well, actually, it's the mall across the street from that one. (Yes, two malls across the street from each other. Now there is only one. The one with Dillard's. When MW folded, it took the mall with it pretty much.)!

Not that unusual. And if it weren't for the Westpark Dr off of 12th, I'd think you were in Albuquerque. We've got two (well, with ABQ Uptown, 3 really) malls across from each other. I'm guessing that MW is Monkey Wards? Well, Winrock Center used to have one of those and the only store still there, up until the revitalization started recently, was Dillard's! It's across the street from Coronado Center.

I'm rarely able to follow directions given verbally, if I have to remember them for more than five minutes or so. Not because I don't understand them, but mostly because it seems my brain can't hold on to verbal communications easily. I don't know why but the whole "In one ear and out the other" saying literally happens to me, even when I'm paying attention.

I've got the same problem, practically no audio memory (except for music). Leftover damage from having the umbilical cord wrapped around my neck when I was born. It's why you see me writing down the most ridiculous things. Thing is, my visual memory is almost eidetic.

[raudf]

Not that unusual. And if it weren't for the Westpark Dr off of 12th, I'd think you were in Albuquerque. We've got two (well, with ABQ Uptown, 3 really) malls across from each other. I'm guessing that MW is Monkey Wards? Well, Winrock Center used to have one of those and the only store still there, up until the revitalization started recently, was Dillard's! It's across the street from Coronado Center.

Yup, Monkey Wards.. as I accidentally said to a customer over the phone one day after having been slammed with calls and people at the counter. The one I was at was in Little Rock, where the the only two malls in the city were right across the street from one another, until the one mall died. The third mall is in North Little Rock, which didn't have a MW, since the MW in that area was a stand alone.

"Go down University like you're heading towards I-30. Turn right onto 12th St. Look for a cemetery on the right, and two buildings that look exactly alike on the left. Turn between the two building onto to WESTPARK Ave. We're of the ways down at the end of the building across from the UPS depo."

That was the directions from the Mall to us, because apparently, none of the salesmen (who would call me all damn day asking stupid questions that I'd answered 15 times for them that day already) could give directions for a bathroom in the store.

[wolfie]

Sometimes the person receiving the directions isn't to blame. I recall seeing on one of the "NotAlways" sites (can't remember which) an item by a person who was given directions from a doctor's office where they were diagnosed with colour blindness to a specialist's office where the exact parameters of their colour blindness would be pinned down. The directions identified the landmarks along the route by colour.

[Jay 2K Winger]

Sometimes the person receiving the directions isn't to blame. I recall seeing on one of the "NotAlways" sites (can't remember which) an item by a person who was given directions from a doctor's office where they were diagnosed with colour blindness to a specialist's office where the exact parameters of their colour blindness would be pinned down. The directions identified the landmarks along the route by colour.

The Color Derple