The One About Inori

I have come to believe that direction sense is innate and that I was born with none, whatsoever.

Okay, maybe not none… I do still know how to get back home from my backyard.

I can read maps. In fact, without maps I would be truly, hopelessly lost. Incidentally, I am a visual learner and therefore can not use a GPS when driving. I cannot concentrate on the road while either looking at the screen or listening to the robotic voice. I therefore rely on the street directory while parked safely on the road shoulder.

Now this post will contain some drawings. I have not drawn for a long long time. I used to draw all the time when I was in high school……then I got all discouraged because I thought, “I’m just mediocre, so why bother?”
There are many blogs nowadays that are filled with awesome drawings  such as Hyperbole and a Half and Crappy Pictures… I thought I might try my hand at some illustrated posts. Not all my posts though because it’s too much work to draw, scan in and colour with photoshop because I am lazy.

So yes, it has been that long since I drew and therefore please bear with my amateur drawings.

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We live in a suburb about 25 minutes drive away from town and we usually do our groceries in another suburb that is only 8 minutes drive away from home. In order to go home from there, we’d have to drive across a river on a bridge. According to my (accurate) assessment, our bearings are so:

So, to go home, at the end of the bridge, we should turn left to go towards North.

HOWEVER, just to confuse people, the road looks like this:

Just a week ago after doing groceries and travelling home, this incident happened.

We were crossing the bridge when I spotted cars traveling on the road highlighted in pink:

I asked the husband, “If we took that road, where would it take us?”

There was a long pause…. and then he replied, “That’s the road we take to go home. We’ve been taking that road for the past TWO years.”

*Silence*

In my mind, I was working this out (let me rotate the map only because we have now reached the bend and straight ahead is south, not east):

See? How I am making a RIGHT TURN when I wanted to go home? It should have been a LEFT TURN!!! No????? How could both turns right bring you to both North AND South?!?!?!? I don’t get it!!!!!!!!!

At this point, my brain was about to explode and I must have looked like this:

Husband asks with trepidation, “….a..are you okay?….”

And that’s when I…

It’s too hard. I’m not going to fight it anymore.

 

Husband has to get in the last words though. He said, “I don’t get how you can take string and make it into garments but not get how the road goes under the bridge.”

 

Are you naturally good at directions? Or are you like me? (I even got accosted once by police because I was hopelessly lost! Something I can boast about!)