A and I have the absolutely worst-est directional sense. So we recently got ourselves a spanking new Garmin GPS machine! Ever so often we're driving, and I go "turn here, quick turn here!". A of course has the sense to question my poor sense of direction (I have taken us on many a goose hunt), "Are you sure turn here? No leh, go straight lah." And because A's sense of direction I dare say isn't much better than my own, I step up to the plate and go, "No! I'm right lah. Turn here, turn here!" Without having to pen everything down, this goes on for a good 3 minutes or so, after which we find that we have missed the turn, gone so far straight we no longer know where we are and we both sing in chorus, "See lah you! Told you to (turn/go straight)! Now we're lost!".
In case you're wondering why we don't just rely on the good ol' Singapore map like every other lost citizen, I'm usually the navigator and despite my Geography map training (which I took all the way to university by the way), I have problems when it comes to figuring out which side is left/right on a map. Anyway, most times, the whole connect the maps until you find an expressway exit isn't quite working for me either. By the time I do find the expressway exit, I've lost the page of the place we wanted to go. Flipping back all the way probably means I'll lost the expressway exit page. You get the point.
So now we have Lucy. (We named her Lucy because she brings us home and we can proudly scream our lungs out as we turn into our carpark, "Lucy, we're HOME! and we LURVE Lucy.) I hope this means our days of chasing non-existent geese are over.
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