Do you have an internal compass or are you like me?

Just got back from tending my daughter's critters. I always drive merrily and blissfully along until I see Allsup's on the corner and that's where I turn. (Street names - Pah!)

Only this time I did not see Allsup's on the corner. As a recovering alcoholic I resolutely ignore the liquor store on the opposite corner.

Whut?

I turned around and drove back. I'm telling you somebody had stolen the Allsup's convenience store and 12-pump gas station. Their sign was not there.

Then some little brain synapse fired and I remembered reading that Allsup's 304 stores had changed hands...and I realized the store was still there ... it's just not Allsup's anymore.

That was a Twilight Zone minute...

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

More like you. I lose trace of North-South/front-back the moment I step onto an elevator. I read maps by aligning them to my direction, meaning I turn them upside down when heading south. Without thinking, I forget that east is then to the left, so I say "turn left" when I really mean "turn right" :)

I'm OK when I follow my instincts, because everything is relative to where I'm heading. The problem is when I talk to myself to tell myself where to turn, and I listen to myself.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Heartlander When I am lost I am not speaking to myself. I simply have [b][i]no idea[/i][/b]. And I have always been that way.

My sister-in-law and I were driving me back to college one weekend (the Pleistocene Age) and it required taking route 8 to I-80 and going east.

We went west - and did not notice until we saw "Leaving Pennsylvania" and "Welcome to Ohio" signs.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@Mamapolo2016

I hate that feeling. The sudden awareness that you've been heading the opposite direction. When it comes as a stark awareness, Like "Welcome to Ohio!"

I think it's a sizable part of the human population that's so afflicted. So we aren't alone.

Wrong way Corrigan (Douglas Corrigan) put himself in the aviation record books after he tried a round trip flight from California to New York and back. His first leg (CA to NY) went as scheduled. On his return flight he landed in Ireland :)

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Heartlander My man. Or, no - we'd never get anywhere. My dad used to call me Wrong Way Corrigan.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

@Mamapolo2016

Haaaa .... reminds me of an old pilot joke: "let's do a 360 and go back home!"

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Heartlander Even I get that one. 😂😂