I've said it already in OT
so why not sharing here?

I have a very bad sense of direction and I'm crap with maps.

Once, I had to go from A to B, but I couldn't remember the way, so I decided to start by going somewhere I knew, and from there, work my way to B.

I walked down the street for 15 min and then turned right; another 10 min and then turned right again, finally, another 15 min and I started to recognize the place. I arrived to B, which was just 5 min walk from where I was at the begining, but I had a nice walk around the city, but I was very late to meet who I was meeting. I've done this quite a few times.

Another time I couldn't work out where I was on the map. I had found the street where I was, but it didn't make sense, as the streets that had to be on the right where on the left and viceversa. I learnt later that you can turn the map, that the letters don't need to be all the time in the right place to read them. I learnt as well that you are not supposed to read the map face down (with the printed bit facing the floor, and you looking from below, trying to find your place); it won't take you anywhere and people on the street will laugh at you.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:13, 8 replies)

Yes.
Me too. It took me spending two nights on the street in London to realise that a street called "North Road" doesn't necessarily go North.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:14, closed)

They do it in purpose
Just to confuse us.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:26, closed)

Thank feck for the free OVI Maps function on me 5800
is all I will say...
( ..wil, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:16, closed)

i can't drive
so i rely a lot on my mate, who can drive. unfortunately, he's dylsexic, so i had to learn very quickly how to read a map!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:30, closed)

That's very funny
You should install a camera on the car so we all can enjoy one of your trips.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 15 Jul 2010, 16:35, closed)

i might just do that
we're going to blackpool in a few weeks
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Thu 15 Jul 2010, 19:02, closed)

Hope you don't depend on gps based in-car navigation systems
www.news-mail.com.au/story/2010/05/07/tourists-follow-sat-nav-road-to-nowhere-gps-leads-/
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sat 17 Jul 2010, 8:02, closed)

I tried to get to Edinburgh Castle
From Cnr Lawnmarket and Bank St. I ended up going nearly down to Princes, via the Mound. I just had to walk down freaking Lawnmarket, but noo, Google Maps thought that way wasn't right.

(Fair go, though, so many tourists, you couldn't see the castle from Bank St. 500 feet turned into nearly a mile :$)
( glasnt is playing herself off., Sun 18 Jul 2010, 5:32, closed)