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Offline thalberg

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Do you get lost a lot?
on: April 04, 2009, 01:00:13 PM
I cannot find my way anywhere.  I get lost any time I deviate from a well known and rehearsed route. 

I just found the best web site ever: https://www.gettinglost.ca/

I'm curious:  How many other people suffer from this problem?

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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #1 on: April 04, 2009, 01:28:03 PM
Say, I get lost a lot in my mind, is there a website for that?   lol   ;)
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #2 on: April 04, 2009, 02:28:25 PM
I swear my dad has perfect sense for directions, all the cities in Europe we traveled through when me and my siblings were young. He was sweating and swearing but always took the right turn and never got lost, on expense of family happiness occasionally but still I'm impressed.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #3 on: April 04, 2009, 03:11:21 PM
I have the worst sense of direction in the world. I can barely find my way to school (a route I have traversed twice a day 180 days every year for 6.5 years) and I know my neighborhood. And this is the extent of my navigational abilities, though I've lived in this area for 9.5 years. I'm going to be a disaster when I get my license... which thankfully won't happen for another 5 months.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #4 on: April 04, 2009, 07:27:46 PM
I think I've got a decent sense of direction, tend to get where I'm going one way or another.  I use maps a lot though and it's mostly straightforward streets and avenues... 

Last summer I got thoroughly lost in Kelowna, the city is organized weirdly.  Probably not organized at all, it grew so fast over the last decade.  Out in the hills of the Okanagan, a lot of the residential areas are all twisty and confusing.  I'd walk down what looked like a straight street only to find it curves 3 different directions.  After a few of those, I still thought I knew where I was heading for about 4 hours until I decided it was time to ask somebody, hah.  I got my exercise that day.

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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #5 on: April 04, 2009, 07:46:23 PM
oh yes, i got lost alot :'( :'(...but i read map very well :D
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #6 on: April 04, 2009, 07:50:02 PM
I'm actually pretty good with directions, I get it from my dad's side of the family!!
He would always give me the maps when ever my mom and I would take a road trip. I am pretty good with knowing where I am though, I can recognize a place that I have only been to once, years ago. Hey maybe I have a photographic memory. hahaha I don't think so I don't remember enough. :D

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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #7 on: April 04, 2009, 08:12:51 PM
no I do not get lost a lot, than you for asking.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #8 on: April 04, 2009, 11:20:05 PM
I very seldom get properly lost. I'm very good at map reading and remembering directions, which is odd considering I'm not as a rule a very visual person and can't draw to save my life.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #9 on: April 05, 2009, 01:01:17 AM
I get lost very easily but always end up in the right place by some sort of dumb luck ;D

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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #10 on: April 23, 2009, 02:27:34 AM

A few years ago, it took me three hours to find the Rialto tower (one of the tallest buildings in Melbourne).  My old high school is opposite Melbourne Uni., so the trip should only have a taken half an hour, max.

What is really embarrassing is that I circled several blocks, several times, for close to an hour, only to find that the Rialto tower was the big building diagonal from where I was.  *sigh*

Does that answer your question?
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #11 on: April 23, 2009, 02:28:46 AM

(Thankfully, since then, my sense of direction has improved somewhat, and I can read a map... albeit rather badly.)
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #12 on: August 16, 2013, 04:49:53 PM
Getting lost is fun! 

Dude that's how you build your sense of direction and get to know your places better!

It's adventurous!
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #13 on: August 16, 2013, 10:57:18 PM
Nope.  I just keep NSEW in mind and keep moving in the direction I need to.  And plan out the trip in advance.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #14 on: August 17, 2013, 05:49:00 AM
I never go out unless unavoidable.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #15 on: August 17, 2013, 09:25:27 AM
I'm lost now, can someone come help me find my way home?
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #16 on: August 17, 2013, 09:45:58 AM
I get lost sometimes, towns are worst, one way systems and everywhere looks the same, I can always find my way home though. It takes me 2 or 3 times to "know" a route to anywhere new, but I love maps, particularly OS maps, I can read them for hours.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #17 on: August 17, 2013, 05:09:59 PM
...where the hell am I?

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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #18 on: August 17, 2013, 08:29:25 PM
remember: "where ever you go,,, there you are"
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #19 on: August 18, 2013, 01:06:08 PM
Oh come on guys, have some fun!!!
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #20 on: August 18, 2013, 08:17:31 PM
Oh come on guys, have some fun!!!

Ok, well gotta tell you I'm not taking up skate boarding at age 63 !!!! I like my legs whole, not broken and not sliced up from missing jumps. LOL.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #21 on: August 19, 2013, 01:29:20 AM
I never get lost. People are always telling me where to go.
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #22 on: August 19, 2013, 01:51:25 AM
Do you ever get lost... on Piano Street?
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Re: Do you get lost a lot?
Reply #23 on: August 19, 2013, 01:52:27 AM
Do you ever get lost... on Piano Street?™

 8)  I see t-shirts.  Some merchandising possibilities there.  Black t-shirts, same style as the forum.  Front of the shirt, "Do you ever get lost...?"  Back, "...on Piano Street?  pianostreet.com"

We'll have to cut Thal in to be on a safe side. "Intellectual property" with the thread title, even though I said it differently.  It's good to be safe.
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