This morning someone asked me for directions.

WillowTheWhisp · 02-02-2007, 16:45

I was waiting for a bus at the top of Ormerod Street - a car came up, drove round the roundabout and then pulled up by the bus stop.

The driver asked me if I could tell him where to find Scaitcliffe House. I pointed down the road and told him it was at the bottom on the other side.

He didn't seem prepared to believe me. He said he'd got a map that showed it on the other side but when he'd been to the place the arrow pointed to it wasn't there.

I asked if he could see a building with a pink painted side. He said he could. I assured him that was Scaitcliffe House.

"Oh" he replied. "The map doesn't show it being that far down!"

I asked where he'd got the map - Hyndburn Council Website!

I've just been looking at the site and wonder if this was the map he'd been looking at. It does seem a bit out with it's arrow.

flashy · 02-02-2007, 17:32

i love people asking me for directions, i always send them the opposite way

but thats just me having an evil streak

i was once stood at intack traffic lights when someone asked me the way to ewood park, so i sent them to accrington

lancsdave · 02-02-2007, 17:36

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Originally Posted by flashytart

i was once stood at intack traffic lights when someone asked me the way to ewood park, so i sent them to accrington

Thats not evil, thats feeling sorry for somebody and pointing them in the right direction

LancYorkYankee · 02-02-2007, 17:44

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Originally Posted by flashytart

i love people asking me for directions, i always send them the opposite way

but thats just me having an evil streak

i was once stood at intack traffic lights when someone asked me the way to ewood park, so i sent them to accrington

July 9, 2006, ~2 p. m. - Ah HA!!! So that was you sending my daughter and I off toward Bolton. All we asked was where Oswald Street was or the Bold Street WMC. This young flashy looking lady on the main drag of Accrington (quite possibly a street walker)(wink, wink, nudge, nudge) sent us off with a quirky little smile.

Brian

mani · 02-02-2007, 17:56

*L*

i think the prob with these new up and coming map websites is that if u put in the postcode it finds a certain point - usually in the middle and arrows it

clearly thats what happened here

WillowTheWhisp · 02-02-2007, 19:31

It's one HBC produce on their lovely website to show people how to find the council offices. Maybe they should have checked it out first.

Gayle · 02-02-2007, 22:49

I used to get asked quite often when I walked the streets - when I had a young baby in a buggy who needed rocking to sleep, before you start Chav! - and I was crap at it. I used to try really hard to get it right but afterwards always realised that I'd sent them in completely the wrong direction.

WillowTheWhisp · 02-02-2007, 22:53

One of my classic booboos is to tell people to turn right whilst pointing to the left!

cashman · 03-02-2007, 00:23

I used to get asked quite often when I walked the streets --- that does surprise me gayle.

Gayle · 03-02-2007, 21:41

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Originally Posted by cashman

I used to get asked quite often when I walked the streets --- that does surprise me gayle.

I qualified it Cashman!!!!! I would have expected it from Chav or Neil or even Entwisi but you -

shillelagh · 04-02-2007, 23:46

Cashy's mind is one track just like most of the fellas on here Gayle - what you asking for is miracles of one of the sane people to ask why you were walking the streets - me i know you will have been canvassing - done it too many times! lol

jackyalex · 05-02-2007, 00:19

i dont know why but i forget the directions that people tell me,after they have said which way to go,i end up somewhere else

SPUGGIE J · 06-02-2007, 00:26

I have been asked for directions off people that have a web based map print off of were to go. Sadley forget to print of a map of a scale that allows them to navigate once in the general area.

entwisi · 06-02-2007, 07:59

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Originally Posted by Gayle

I used to get asked quite often when I walked the streets

What was it Freud said about people saying what they actually wanted as opposed to what actually happened?

Let face it Gayle, you could have said "whilst trying to get my baby to sleep by pushing him in the pram" and no one would have made a single comment!

grego · 06-02-2007, 13:46

I was stopped and asked for directions yesterday, first time in ages, anyway I sent him the correct way, lots of use of the hands though.