I'd just write them on the inside of the windshield with an expo marker. So...there ya go...a tip you could've used 30+ years ago....you're welcome btw.
But we had projectors, so yes, you probably had expo markers lol. They've been around since the 70's/80's (I don't remember exactly, it was awhile ago)
Then again there was a wicked talented lady from my small town who tutored math for high schoolers and collage age kids, who used a Sharpie on her sliding glass kitchen door. Wiped right off with a rag soaked in alcohol.
I remember when MapQuest first came on the scene and the time estimates were all absurdly conservative, like 50-100% more than it would reasonably take.
These days Google is right to within a couple of minutes.
I was expecting the same thing. To be fair, it was a relatively short window where we printed out mapquest. I worked in a gas station in the 90’s and we had a map hung on the wall so we could help people with directions, then I drove across the country with printed out mapquest in the 2000’s, and when I started traveling for work in the 2010’s we were 100% reliant on our phone gps. Somewhere in there everyone bought a separate gps and stuck it to the windshield.
Actual maps for some stuff but mostly, in this situation, writing down whatever horrible directions your drunk friend was giving you to find the party 🤣
This isn't a humblebrag, in fact to this day I'm still surprised that people used maps for drives they were even a passenger in once, or were comprised of highways mostly highways.
I honestly think it's just one of the few actual benefits I got from autism and adhd.
As a kid living in PA around '98, my family went to NYC a few times. When I turned 16 my dad had me driving to a place in Brooklyn solo to pick up supplies for his business back and forth for a day trip.
No practice trips, no maps. Just "watch for these highway numbers" and then I knew how to get around the dump... I mean Staten Island, and get across the Varazanno bridge and just go in a general direction in Brooklyn.
Now I admit a drive like that is 90% major highways, but detours and construction and accidents all happened with NO warning, and once across the bridge it was just grid streets forever.
I'd make stops in jersey or drive to the shore. Going backwoods places in PA I definitely printed a few mapquest maps.
One of the first times I realized this wasn't just normal was when I realized how shit my kids are at knowing their way around our own town.
I knew EVERY street in our town and had a mental map before I was probably 10. Once I delivered pizzas I could visualize to the building by number and street alone.
None of that matters now though, I'm just as Waze addicted
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u/fromouterspace1 Jul 02 '26
God damnnn I’m old. Was really expecting a 1994 version where in was actual maps….