My leukemia's back.

[bobbi-j]

Poor eldest kid... he got lost on the bus again today...

Luckily it doesn't bother him... but he did say that by the time he finally got to the library he was too mentally exhausted to do any learning stuff... so just read some junk books and enjoyed himself before heading home.

At least he can roll with it if he does get lost. I have an irrational fear of getting lost. Like, it's almost paralyzing. I am terrified of going someplace unfamiliar by myself because I'm afraid I'll get lost. I don't mind getting lost with someone, but by myself... nope! I don't know why. I don't really remember a time that I've been lost. Somewhere deep inside, I know that eventually I'll find my way back to where I need to be, but then I get that, "I'll never find my way out and I'll be wandering around lost for the rest of my life" feeling.

 

[ronott1]

At least he can roll with it if he does get lost. I have an irrational fear of getting lost. Like, it's almost paralyzing. I am terrified of going someplace unfamiliar by myself because I'm afraid I'll get lost. I don't mind getting lost with someone, but by myself... nope! I don't know why. I don't really remember a time that I've been lost. Somewhere deep inside, I know that eventually I'll find my way back to where I need to be, but then I get that, "I'll never find my way out and I'll be wandering around lost for the rest of my life" feeling.

I got lost once at the SF Airport looking for the car in the parking garage. I finally realized that there were two of them and I was looking in the wrong one....I was alonte too....

 

[bobbi-j]

I got lost once at the SF Airport looking for the car in the parking garage. I finally realized that there were two of them and I was looking in the wrong one....I was alonte too....

I probably would have ended up in an arm-flapping panic.

 

[oldrooster]

I knew someone who Lived in Indianapolis for a while and was new to Indiana, she told me when she got lost she would go to the interstate that looped around the city and would go to where she knew where she was (exit wise) and try again or go home.

 

[oldrooster]

BTW I don't have a smart phone or a mapping thing in my car, but I understand most are set up based on internet mapping services, and I tried looking up rural addresses and they won't always find it because the maps are differently inputed because here in Indiana it is county road 123 east box (or house number) 432 south and some will not understand it, i remember looking up something a few years back and having to type in county highway number 123 box 432. here we only have state and interstate highways.

 

[drumstick diva]

I was always getting lost- something I inherited from my mother. But once I started doing serious distance walking I learned how not to get lost. In a car you may get lost and have to go back so many miles but, you go back fast.

Walking and missing the correct turn can mean an hour or more of retracing your steps.
I learned to pay rapt attention to landmarks (like golf courses, water treatment plants, etc. etc. Even walking into a shopping center, I will eye ball what greets me as soon as I cross their threshold.

Because I am short and staring up at street signs, can turn on my vertigo, I basically ignore them.But pay a lot of attention to what is in my normal eyesight range. Sad to say people were always asking me for directions and didn't like the way I gave them out. Like go to so & so store , turn right blah blah blah.

Once a woman got downright nasty with me. She said she was driving on fumes and wanted the closest gas station NOW!!! I told her I never needed one and didn't remember passing any. She cussed a blue streak at me. I smiled and told her to have a nice day. Lucky she didn't run me over.

 

[bobbi-j]

BTW I don't have a smart phone or a mapping thing in my car, but I understand most are set up based on internet mapping services, and I tried looking up rural addresses and they won't always find it because the maps are differently inputed because here in Indiana it is county road 123 east box (or house number) 432 south and some will not understand it, i remember looking up something a few years back and having to type in county highway number 123 box 432. here we only have state and interstate highways.

If you tried to find our place with GPS, you’d end up in the middle of a slough.

 

[getaclue]

Years ago, my best had just gotten a Garmin, but wanted the one with the largest screen, so she gave me her smaller one (next size down, so not too small). It hadn't even been used. I've had it, and used it all these years. Every so often, I plug it into my computer to update all the maps. Through the years, it's gotten so much better at being able to locate things. Yes, even rural addresses in Indiana are not usually a problem for it now. I use mine there when we go see my mother-in-law, and she lives in Logansport. It's a podunk rural farming community. When they started putting GPS on the bigger farm machines, they were forced to improve the mapping out in the rural areas. They've come a long way.

 

[getaclue]

bobbi-j, if you have a Garmin or Tom Tom, you can go to your driveway, and there is a "remember this location", or "find me" button. This gives the reading for the coordinates to get to your place. When you invite someone, all you do is give them the coordinates to enter into their device, and they can find you that way. I've actually had to use that a couple times.

The first time I used that was when a friend had bought a plain piece of property, and they were having a spot cleared to put their trailer on. It didn't have an address assigned until later on. The second time I did that was at my cousin's town house. They bought their place when the community was first being developed, so the addresses had not been put into the map system yet.

 

[ronott1]

I probably would have ended up in an arm-flapping panic.

It was very stressful!