I am a good driver. At least I think so. I would remember a place from the first time I visit it. I am good with directions, when I have visited a place. Even otherwise, I will manage to find my way. This might sound egoistic but I take pride in this fact. Might sound kiddish, but that's me :). Every time I venture out on my bike to some place new, I have this ego kicking in. I would try to reach the destination all by myself without asking for help. Well, you can call that one of my quirks. I would go round and round, but eventually manage to find the place and get there. I make sure I leave early when such a venture happens since I eventually land up taking an hour to reach a destination which would normally have taken about 15 to 20 mins. But then, I would be proud over the fact that I made it yet again. There is this adrenalin kicking in within me during every such venture. Some of my friends have experienced this with me. Poor things!! :).
A few years back, my friend Giri and I were chatting away to glory and somehow landed up on this very topic of directions. He told me an interesting method to find my way out when I am lost. Till this day, this has always helped me. This is no fool proof way. This might not work always, but with a little common sense from our part will can help ourselves with this method of finding our way out. When you are on your way to some place and are groping to find the spot, go in a left, right, left, right mode. You will eventually reach your destination. For this to work, of course you should at least have a vague knowledge of the geography of the area. And of course you can't take every left and every right. If you think about it, this is simple math. This will avoid you from going in circles in the same place. Even yesterday, I was caught up in a traffic jam. And to avoid being stuck in the same place, I took a different road which was not familiar to me and I applied this logic and found myself in a familiar locality.
A few years back, my friend Giri and I were chatting away to glory and somehow landed up on this very topic of directions. He told me an interesting method to find my way out when I am lost. Till this day, this has always helped me. This is no fool proof way. This might not work always, but with a little common sense from our part will can help ourselves with this method of finding our way out. When you are on your way to some place and are groping to find the spot, go in a left, right, left, right mode. You will eventually reach your destination. For this to work, of course you should at least have a vague knowledge of the geography of the area. And of course you can't take every left and every right. If you think about it, this is simple math. This will avoid you from going in circles in the same place. Even yesterday, I was caught up in a traffic jam. And to avoid being stuck in the same place, I took a different road which was not familiar to me and I applied this logic and found myself in a familiar locality.
This is definitely one of my quirks, and possibly a weird one at that. Anyways, does anyone share this quirk? Or anything more weirder? What do you think about this? Crazy huh???
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I was never good with routes myself but I have always managed to reach myself well with in the agreeable time. Yes, Giri is absolutely right about the logic. Well you see as far as my knowledge is concerned everyone manages to reach the place in that fashion only when they don’t know about the perfect route (Provided that they know in which direction the destination is present - knowledge of geography of that area.)
Even from much older times, people are used to navigate (both water and land) using that logic and if it was crazy or weird, no one might have continued using that.
Oh yeah! I do... Have done this loads of times... every new place I go, I do this. And when I don't visit a new place but still feel like going in rounds I just keep going from an unfamiliar area until I reach a familiar area... Now is that weird or weirder? :)
ReplyDeleteYour quirk is so much a trait that you find in most men. Lets see how it works out when you try and come to my place.. :)
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