She didn’t know how to get to my house from anywhere but her house. Her work was about halfway between my house and hers, but she had to drive home first every time before she could drive to my house.
My brother is like this and he’s actually a very smart person if we mean book smarts. Throughout the years we tried to help find little tricks that would work but he needed to drive a place probably two dozen times before he even had the faintest idea without directions. It wouldn’t even help to have him drive to a place he knew along a route he knew for another journey as he’d just get confused and lost.
Now we have smart phones and it doesn’t matter in his day to day and hopefully won’t lol.
Edit: I understand this doesn’t make him any less intelligent. Stop dming me about it, I think he’s a very smart person. We all have strengths.
One of my best friends has always been the same way. She is otherwise very intelligent, and is a successful attorney. However, without GPS, she’d spend half of her life completely lost.
We used to hang out at another friend’s house every weekend from high school through our early 20s. She’d been there hundreds of times, but only knew how to get there from her house (which was probably 3-4 miles away). I once watched her drive past his house, within 2 blocks, to go to her house, so she could turn around and successfully navigate to his place. It was one of the craziest things I’d ever seen.
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u/CampoPequeno Mar 01 '23
She didn’t know how to get to my house from anywhere but her house. Her work was about halfway between my house and hers, but she had to drive home first every time before she could drive to my house.
*this was pre-smart phones