Understood. You just got my hopes up is all. Google swiftly dashed them.
I thought maybe Death was finally making up for some of its recent behavior.
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Oh I see you’ve met my husband.
He literally drove in a huge circle the other day, passing at least one freeway on-ramp, in order to get to the freeway on-ramp that he knew. Even weirder, he’d forgotten that if he drove past the grocery store instead, he could have gotten there much faster.
We were going to pick up my car from the mechanic. The mechanic my car has been to at least 6 times in the last 12 months. He still has no idea where the mechanic is.
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Maybe Mr. Bells could tell us where North Korea is?
Honestly, he’s probably much better at general geography than just remembering where the eye doctor is. Navigation is not his strong suit.
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Don’t worry, it’s not hereditary. My dad taught orienteering to mountain troops. Going home to Northern Virginia one summer from college in SoCal, I wound up in Delaware.
In my defense, those East Coast states are confoundingly small targets.
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While the guy who did Australia laughed her ass off.
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What do you teach instead? Seriously.
I don’t think I had one year of school without separate history and geography and social studies classes. 45 minutes net per class and week. It drops off a little in grade 2, I think, but only because you pick one of this as one of two majors and possibly one as one of two minors (90 minutes).
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I lived with a Japanese buddy of mine for a couple years in college, and a couple after college.
He was the worst at navigation. I am not even kidding.
I recall one time he was driving back from Chinatown in Chicago to the suburbs, and drove through the following states before getting home:
Illinois >
Indiana >
Ohio >
Indiana >
Michigan (What the hell?!) >
Indiana >
Illinois
In this and a number of other areas, nobody I’ve ever met compares.
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Seriously though, all snark aside;
I’m one of the ‘working poor’ and I still have a freakin’ world globe in my home, and a current map of the US on my wall.
*sighs
The Dumbening is so much worse than I ever suspected…
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Straya was grouped in with Asia. Of course, Asia and Europe were much easier during the USSR days.
Antarctica was the hard one.
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N.B I’m not familiar with the area, but googling “question mark meme” and his many faces looking quizzically back at me, made me lol all the more.
Indiana is easy to explain. Go east on I-80 instead of West, and you’re almost immediately in Indiana. Michigan is understandable too. If you get off 80, get back on 94, but go East instead of West, you’re in Michigan and about 60 miles past Chicago.
I can’t explain Ohio. That’s nearly 200 miles away.
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IIRC North Korea is precisely on the great circle trajectory between Beijing and Los Angeles. This potentially lucrative fact has so far been ignored by the North Korean powers that be.
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Two hundred miles is virtually next door; my brother drives further than that to go to the shops.
The nearest other state is about 1,000km from me, but I did once end up in Canberra (300km southwest) while driving to Wollongong (100km south). In my defence, it was during a major storm and visibility was near zero.
And it probably still took him less time than the Eisenhower during rush hour.
/rimshot
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