Do you get lost a lot?

[thalberg]

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?

[go12_3]

Say, I get lost a lot in my mind, is there a website for that?   lol   

[Petter]

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.

[kelly_kelly]

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.

[rc]

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.

[tds]

oh yes, i got lost alot ...but i read map very well

[ahbach]

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.

[communist]

no I do not get lost a lot, than you for asking.

[richard black]

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.

[morningstar]

I get lost very easily but always end up in the right place by some sort of dumb luck

[annoying_airhead]

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?

[annoying_airhead]

(Thankfully, since then, my sense of direction has improved somewhat, and I can read a map... albeit rather badly.)

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Getting lost is fun! 

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

It's adventurous!

[Bob]

Nope.  I just keep NSEW in mind and keep moving in the direction I need to.  And plan out the trip in advance.

[senanserat]

I never go out unless unavoidable.

[lostinidlewonder]

I'm lost now, can someone come help me find my way home?

[the_fervid_pig]

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.

[austinarg]

...where the hell am I?

[sirpazhan]

remember: "where ever you go,,, there you are"

[rachmaninoff_forever]

Oh come on guys, have some fun!!!

[hfmadopter]

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.

[j_menz]

I never get lost. People are always telling me where to go.

[Bob]

Do you ever get lost... on Piano Street?

[Bob]

Do you ever get lost... on Piano Street?™

   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.