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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Back when I lived in the rust belt, I had a bad habit of giving directions based on things that weren't there anymore and businesses that had long closed as if I was in my 80s instead of my teens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

turn left at the blockbusters, if you see a radio shack, you went too far into the past.

Now I want a Douglas Addams story about time travellers giving directions. even better if it tries to use time travel grammar.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"You take a left at the thing, keep going until you get to that one house, then a right for about one or two or four blocks, and then a right until you to get to that one hill. Then just follow the trees."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

smartphones destroyed the asking strangers for directions industry

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nobody's asked me directions in at least ten years. And the last guy that did, spoke only French. He drove around Germany without a map or navigation system and asked random people in a language they were unlikely to understand. I bet he complained about how uncultured those Germans are, when he got home.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you also speak french? If not, that's a lot of assumptions for a person you just briefly met.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

No I don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oh shit, that place sounds like something with social interactions, and I don't do those 🫣