Wifes Directions!!

Sounds like you've been married long enough NOT to need one of those autorouting Garmin/TomTom/Navman GPS thingys!!!

But maybe you should still seriously consider one.........just for the sake of your sanity!!

My wife couldn't navigate her way through the mile high pile of dishes sitting on HER kitchen bench!! ;)

Lucky for her, I 'navigate' for a living, and get around well enough....without assistance!

:)

I refuse to hand over the map. If I see her rotate it upside down when we are travelling south one more time I swear I'll do something I'll regret.

Axle,
My wife as much as I love her, can't read a map for $#@t. Maybe I will have to enrol her in a map reading course:0) If I don't memorize the way there before we go, we have to stop and I would have to look at the map. The funniest thing she does is when she does read the map she reads it in the direction we are going( ie she turns the map around anywhere from 90 to 180 deg, determined by which way we turned, either left or right.)
Like I said I love my wife....

Greg S

Travelling through Brisbane last year, and was trying to find the correct bridge to cross the Brisbane river, whilst the wife read the map. She replied " there isn't a river on the map!", so i had to point out that the BIG BLUE winding thing across the centre was the river.

Last year with six cars in company in the desert , my wife ran rings around everyone on navigation , so it's not a female thing . And she likes cricket too !

Willie .

My wife is the BEST navigator.
Drove thru Kuala Lumpar in Malaysia on a Friday afternoon and my wife never missed a turn. Believe you me driving in Asia is a test of your abilities. Sydney is easy when compared to Asia. Even Cairo in Egypt with 3 million cars on the road is not all that bad, Was there 12 months ago and it is not all that bad.
Have travelled a lot of Australia and believe you me she is the best. I am not trying to score brownie points here at all. She is just bloody good at reading maps.
I have come across many men who wouldn't know left from right.
Cheers
The Bigfella
PS. I found my way to Victoria to spend time with some forumites recently with no trouble:):):):):):):):):):)::

Ah! the good old days...
Once upon a day I too used to hurl missives at the missus for poor instruction as to what was the next turn. My memory has started to wain so memorising which way is what has also gone by the wayside.

So I invested in one of those fandangled navigation thingos. And can I say, after a lot of research, I have finally come up with something that does not take offense when I yell at it for giving the wrong turn. :-)

In all fairness, I have always made it to the destination, the exception is now I don't have the repercussions of my intolerance..

Peter

hahahahaha and I thought SWMBO was the only one with this problem.

When we go the LONG way to any destination now, we just refer to as the 'scenic route'. Stops me getting a cauliflowered left lughole :))))

My missus isn't too bad at reading a map....it's the "turn here" as the road flashes past the side of the car that gives me the sh1ts.

If my Girlfriend makes a mistake reading the map and we make a wrong turn, somehow it always seems to be my fault because I'm the one driving!
Make sense of that.

Barnesy

At a previos job I Drove for Women who did the navagating and I reckon they would easily leave 90% of people on this forum for dead in the navagation stakes. Using ariel photos to create and drape grids over, studying them with microscopes for features we needed to visit then looking for any tracks no matter how faint and planning the route that would get us to these features estimating best cross country routes depending on vegetation thickness and guiding us around thickest bush to minimise vehicle damage.
They certainly made a mockery of the theory Women cant navagate

Axle!! I agree, How stupid, She could at least used millimetres!! :)

All is explained here :)

Why men don't listen and women can't read maps

Mike Harding

I have one of those in car turn by turn navigation thingy's.

I have a mental picture of the lady that does the talking.

Shes about 23 blond wearing fish net stockings and a very very low cut bra all in black with red trim and small flowers on the straps. with great big blue eyes and her hair has a slight curl in it and just over one shoulder.
Her legs are oh so long and she has an all over tan.
And she always says turn here big guy and if I forget to turn she says dont worry recalculating.

The wife reckons iv got a problem

All the best
Eric

It's amazing , how they cant read a map or Melways for every day travel etc. But tell them that there is a shopping center with a sale on and all of a sudden they seam to get this gift , were they can read a map to get there , but once they shopping is done , they seam to loose this gift and they how do I get home phone call happens .

I now have given hear a vehicle fitted with sat nav. Not long ago , we were at a party and I heard her say , I love the sat nav in my car , I have pre programed all the important places and don't have to worry about remembering how to get there.

Hhhmmm , has my wife taken smart pills ? she now can pre program the sat nav with go to addresses ?

These are the ones i found

Chadstone shopping center
Southland shopping center
Northland Shopping center
Eastland shopping center
Factory outlets direct

All I can say is I am one of the lucky ones. My wife doesn't come with me on trips. She only goes by plane. She is the worst traveller I have ever been with. If we were to sit in the car for longer than an hour I reckon we would be divorced very quickly.
After a day trip to Yengo I turned and said "You are banned" I then turned to our 8 month old baby and said "But you can come with me any time you want"
I have had great trips ever since.
She did scare me recently stating that she wouldn't mind coming camping with me for a relaxing weekend so long as we didn't do any driving. I quickly filled the car with the kids friends.
120scruiser

One thing I've learnt over the decades is that people are different and there are some things you can't change - so I don't get upset over it any more.

Mike

My ex-wife can't read a map to save her life neither can our oldest daughter. Youngest one is a champion navigator and map reader.
My mum can read a map so well she tells you the third turn ahead of where the car actually is on the road. Kid yourself it's not hard to drive when you and the car are three turns behind the directions.
My Ex firmly believes if she can't read a map then no one on this earth is capable of reading a map. (Stuffed if I know why she thinks people persist in printing and buying them)
If we where going somewhere new I'd have a look a the map and work out the trip. She'd be up me the whole way about not knowing where I was going, how I was going the wrong way, we'll never get there etc.....

Funny thing, I must be the arsiest bugger alive, I always end up where I wanted to be!

Queenslanders from Brissy will remember the Ad on the Radio from Johnny Appleseed GPS , that was very funny

Wow who is this woman!, really, I can't answer this thread.

Patrolman Pat

Toward the end of my years with Kerry Packer's ACP I became involved with the Gregory Maps division. (Also incidentally the Car Manual division - the Pommy branch of which had printed about 50,000 copies of a manual for a car that had a production run of less than 7000!).

Re the maps - I commissioned a survey to establish whether there was any basis in the common belief that most women and some men read a map more easily if the top or sides of the map are oriented in the general direction of travel (ie as opposed to inverting the map).

The survey of some 10,000 men and women showed that over 85% of the women surveyed (and about 25% of the men) preferred that to the traditional 'North at the Top' approach.

We considered printing some maps accordingly, but it was felt that, on balance, the motives would be misunderstood - and we dropped the project. (That was about 1980 from memory).

Were I still to be involved I would certainly consider offering this is an option with computer mapping systems.
Collyn Rivers

My wife is good at reading maps WHEN SHE WANTS TO. If we are in a strange city, she throws the map away and relies on instinct for awhile then gets tha map out again. Only problem, her instinct has turned us 180 degrees.

She will never want to go my way, even if it is the shortest and most logical way (to males anyway).

Lets me know when I have to turn after we have passed an intersection, then tells me off for going too fast, even with a 50ton truck up our arse becuase I am going so slow.

Best of all, she called me on the phone last year when she was lost and said "where am I?" Honest, my reply was you have a map in the truck, use it as I don't have a clue where you are being 50km away.

Stevesub