Bad Directions - The worst kind of people give them

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Has anyone ever given you bad directions? Did you ever get where you were trying to go? How long did it take? And when you no doubt confronted the douche who gave you the bad directions, what happened?

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My worst experience with this was that myself and a friend were asked to spend a day with some mutual friends at the lake. They loved to go camping (first red flag) and figured it would be fun to spend the day on the lake in their boat (second red flag.) Friend and I were told a main road to take there and that the only right turn was the one we needed to take and that we couldn't miss it. This was before texting was as common as it is now so we were told that when we got there to ask someone at the main gate where their campsite was (third red flag.) I asked how long it would take to get there and I'm told "If you it major traffic, which I don't expect, maybe 45 minutes at the most."

Friend and I set out that morning and we drive...and drive and drive and drive. There is traffic but it wasn't gridlocked at any point so we never had to slow down and drove the speed limit the whole way. Over two hours later, we see the turn and get out of the car to ask where the people's campsite was...and they were not registered to camp there. We try everything to figure out this mystery and are eventually told that there is another campsite a few miles up the road and maybe that's where they are. Another half an hour later we get to where our friends are and everyone is completely trashed well before noon. Friend and I are extremely pissed at this point and if we hadn't driven so far might have just left but we figured the day would get better. Nope.

It was pretty uneventful except for our confrontation of the friend who gave us the bad directions. We tell him how long it took to get there and he is very drunk and doesn't really care or understand why we were upset. We asked why he told us it would only take 45 minutes and that there were two campsites and he said he forgot and wasn't thinking straight because he was drunk when he gave the directions. So the guy had just stayed wasted from the time he invited us to the next day. We were so angry the entire day sucked.
 
My erection always points North so, naturally, I'm awesome with directions.... and erections.
God this whiskey is great.
 
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My MIL once typed the wrong address in our GPS. It was missing a number, and we ended up on the other side of Austin with the GPS pointing us in to a vacant lot. We called her up to get the right address and got to the restaurant an hour late. She was upset with us for being late.
 
A friend of mine who lived in the middle of nowhere had trouble having people over because Google Maps and other dedicated GPSes would take you on an ass-backwards route through a nearby forest that added about 30 minutes to an already hour-and-a-half drive. Turns out, Google had you turn onto a rural road on your way there that took you on that 30-minute detour, whereas if you had just kept going straight, you'd get there in five minutes.

Ironically, Apple Maps actually gave the right route, even back while it was still a laughing stock.
 
Meeting my mother on one occasion. She said where the bar was near but failed to give me the name or the actual address. Which left me trying to locate it for the best part of 20 mins.
Not a big deal but why not just give me the name in the first place?!?
 
I'll only trust somebody's directions if they can point North without thinking about it for more than two seconds. This disqualifies 99% of women and 50% of "men".

I'd say more than 50 percent of people in general would have difficulty explaining, conceptually, what North even *is.*

I had a girl get pissy at me for insisting I needed to know at what side of a large building she wanted to meet me. "I don't use that stuff."

There's having a specialty, and there's being utterly helpless outside your narrow focus.
 
There's something to be said for being a Boy/Girl Scout/Campfire Girl and learning basic orienteering. I'm shocked at the number of people who don't know what the Big or Little Dipper are and their relation to the North Star.
 
I don't ask for direction cause I can't understand them anyway, I can't survive without a GPS or at least a proper map.
I do however get asked for directions a lot and because I have no sense of orientation, I'm pretty sure I've never given the right directions ever. I mean, just last week some guy stopped me to ask where a place I had just driven past was. But in my stupid fucking brain, it was on the other side of town, so I told the guy to go the opposite way. I wonder if he ever found it.
 
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Slight powerlevel, but it really sucks when dispatch fucks up the addresses. It only happened once, but the idiot sent all three responding units to different addresses. I blame subdivisions using street names that are too similar for most of the confusion. Don't name three parallel streets (ex.) Oakwood, Oakcrest, Oakridge, and have them intersected by Oakview.
 
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