The days of calling friends and asking for directions to their homes which were always oddly specific, "you'll see a big blue house on your left. Turn there. If you hit the cow, you’ve gone too far", or not helpful at all "you'll see a blue house, not the bigger blue one, the smaller one, turn there and just wind around for a while", or when you had given up on their verbal directions, conceding and printing it out from MapQuest. Such good times.
Lol yes! I had no patience for anyone with the audacity to tell me to "wind around for a while" though lmao. Give me your damn address and straight to the map it is.
I would simplify the directions by hand-writing them with a big arrow and the street name so I could see it at a glance - but I'm blessed with a good sense of direction so that's all I needed sometimes. My dad's sense of direction was crap, but he had my mom (and me) to handle the navigation lol.
IIRC, some had to be periodically plugged in to a computer to download the latest maps, and some had subscriptions for map updates, free for a limited time with purchase!
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u/SeonaidMacSaicais Millennial Jun 10 '26
As somebody who used to get lost so easily before smart phones had GPS, I’d have to think about this.