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In a message dated 8/13/2004 8:24:27 PM Central Standard Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:

If you were driving the wrong way to get to your destination, wouuld you go
to the next town or intersection and then turn around? Or would you turn
around as soon as you knew you were going the wrong way?




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I have never understood this. Often when I feel I have gone the wrong way
while trying to get somewhere, I will keep going, based on the fact that I
have likely looked at a map before I left, probably have the map in the car, and
an alternate route is likely available. It drives my husband NUTS. :)

But I get to see a part of town that I wouldn't have seen, maybe. I learn
how to get around in a new town. I may even run across the the very thing I
was looking for, which has happened many times.

I've also ended up in a very nasty neighborhood in Chicago late at night
where a 9 yo boy came and scared the living daylights out of me by trying to
wash the windshield. I've hit dead ends. There are times when I just turn
around, but not every often.

Not all who wander are lost. :)

Karen,


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Aimee

I wander around, too. lol

I've learned that what often happens is that I connect
two parts of my mental map with a new route, and I
LOVE that.

Then, often, I end up having to go someplace new, look
at a map, and lo and behold, it's right where that new
route was, or near it.

My world widens.

I used to be very phobic about getting lost.
Now, I get *found*. lol

<<I've also ended up in a very nasty neighborhood in
Chicago late at night
where a 9 yo boy came and scared the living daylights
out of me by trying to
wash the windshield. I've hit dead ends. There are
times when I just turn
around, but not every often.

Not all who wander are lost. :)

Karen, >>

Do you live in/near Chicago?

I do! Prolly really close to that neighborhood that
scared you! lol

~Aimee

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In a message dated 8/14/2004 9:08:20 AM Central Standard Time,
aimeel73@... writes:

Do you live in/near Chicago?

I do! Prolly really close to that neighborhood that
scared you! lol




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I was born there and lived there until I was 3, when we moved to Romeoville.
But then at 11 we moved to Arkansas.

I was on the expressway with my mother, and we were trying to get to a hotel
out by O'Hare from the south side. There was construction and we had to get
off and it got squirrely and we couldn't get back on near where we got off,
and that's how we ended up with the windshield incident. :)

I like Chicago. Love to visit.

Karen


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In a message dated 8/14/04 7:02:23 AM, tuckervill2@... writes:

<< I have never understood this. Often when I feel I have gone the wrong
way
while trying to get somewhere, I will keep going, based on the fact that I
have likely looked at a map before I left, probably have the map in the car,
and
an alternate route is likely available. It drives my husband NUTS. :)

<<But I get to see a part of town that I wouldn't have seen, maybe. I learn
how to get around in a new town. I may even run across the the very thing I
was looking for, which has happened many times. >>

That's funny, because I was thinking of state highways out in New Mexico. If
you're not headed toward the town you need to go to, you will not ever find
that town driving away from it, and every mile you drive is going to have to be
re-drivin the other way.

Yeah, if I'm looking for a WalMart in Albuquerque I can wander around. I
think there might be six of them now. But if I'm looking for Pecos, driving on
to find another one won't help much at all! <g>

-=-I've also ended up in a very nasty neighborhood in Chicago late at night
where a 9 yo boy came and scared the living daylights out of me by trying to
wash the windshield. -=-

See, now if you weren't even supposed to be in Chicago at all, that would be
very bad. <g>

Sandra

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In a message dated 8/14/2004 1:32:08 PM Central Standard Time,
SandraDodd@... writes:

That's funny, because I was thinking of state highways out in New Mexico.
If
you're not headed toward the town you need to go to, you will not ever find
that town driving away from it, and every mile you drive is going to have to
be
re-drivin the other way.



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Well, I do USUALLY know what town I should be going to, and whether I'm
going the right direction. <g>

For some reason I get my directions mixed up in Florida, a lot. There's
something about a big body of water being on both sides of me that throws me off.

The more I think about whether to turn around or not, the more I think that
the answer is "it depends." I went on a Young Life trip to Colorado in high
school and the van I was in did take a wrong turn at New Mexico and DID run
out of gas in the middle of the desert on a SUNDAY in 1978. We probably
should have turned around.

Karen




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