How's your sense of direction?

Posted: Mon, Jan 23 2012, 7:38 pm Post subject: how's your sense of direction?

Mine is pretty good, b'h, but my dh's is not that great. He knows how to go where he always goes, though. Sadly my kids have his sense of direction. We were walking home from a direction we very often do and about 3-4 blocks away, I ask them what's the name of the next street and each one until we were by our block. Oy vey!! My oldest, my 13 year old, who walked home from school every day and passed didn't even know. I guess they don't look at the names and some blocks there's no sign Rolling Eyes

, but come on, we've been living here for over 5 years!!! I told them that I think if we stood outside of our building and I blind folded them and turned them around five times, they wouldn't be able to find our building Confused

. Okay, not that bad, but... Now, when we lived in Brooklyn, that was easy Wink

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How's your sense of direction??
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I have no sense of direction in say a parking lot. I always misplace my car. b'h, my son even as a two year old could find it for me.

I can only navigate once I am oriented to the directions on a compass. I can say such a place is say northeast of another. Other than that fagetaboutit.

Non-existant.
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Active Poster Joined: Sep 16 2011 Posts: 49

So bad!
Thank goodness for my dh!

On places like highways, terrible. But locally, I'm ok.

fabulous, I can go somewhere when I was 5 and go back 20 yrs later and remember the exact way.

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Mine is terrible.

I say tehillim with LOTS of kavanah whenever my GPS looses satellite reception and I don't know where I am!!!
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Diamond Member Joined: Jun 09 2009 Posts: 3231

I have no sense of direction. Dh has a great one. Even when I'm sure I know where to go, we always go his way and it always gets us to the right place, even when I'm positive my way is right and his way is wrong.

Diamond Member Joined: Mar 11 2010 Posts: 3085

Mine is terrible, dh's is much better. Now if only I wasn't so stubborn, maybe we wouldn't be circling so late at night...

A week after our Sheva Brachos we moved to Lakewood and ate supper at dh's brother's house two blocks away from our apartment. Afterward, we got in the car and I drove us far, far away. Dh was laughing so hard he could barely talk Embarassed

I'm the GPS (and the back-seat driver)

Silver Member Joined: Apr 27 2009 Posts: 737

I'm AWFUL. Problem is that my mil is superb, and my dh thinks it belongs this way. He drives and wifey knows where and how. But I'm clueless.

Pretty good. My dh doesn't like to travel without me. He can get lost even with detailed driving instructions.
I enjoy reading and navigating with an paper map over a gps.

I can navigate through a whole room full of toys on the floor without hurting my feet (if I see it first with the light on.)! Wink

I read maps and directions very well. When in a new place it takes me quite a while until I can figure out how to get from one place to another.

My mom is like clarivka. my dh is pretty much like that too.
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Gold Member Joined: Feb 05 2008 Posts: 2428 Location: UK

Terrible - Whenever I go shopping and come out of a shop, I always end up going back in the direction I came from, rather than going further...

Sometimes when I stop trying to focus I can figure out where to go, but when I get stressed, forget it...
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I have a good ability to get home B"H. Getting where I need to go I am B"H pretty good at if I know where I am going. I am not great with names, including street names. On occasion I try to go somewhere that I know (the street at the end of my son's school's street for example) but don't realize that is the name of the road and there are no street signs. Then I can drive around for a bit and be frustrated when I finally figure it out.

B"H I know enough landmarks not to be "terminally" lost most of the time though.
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I've a wonderful sense of direction, if one wants to end up lost and wandering and completely miskababled.
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Silver Member Joined: May 24 2010 Posts: 597

I can follow a gps. If its not working, my kids have a great sense of direction so as long as we're going somewhere that we went before, I can ask them how to go.

Gold Member Joined: Aug 24 2010 Posts: 1488

What sense of direction? Aren't you taking it for granted that I have one? I get lost WITH a gps.

I have a great sense of direction. especially with the trains. I know exactly where to go which stop to get off which exit to use etc. my problem is I have a crazy fear of trains. my sis is just the opposite. she loves the train but always manages to get lost!!
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