I have been in similar situations a lot. When I was learning to use the
cane, I had a saying that went like this. Ask directions until you get
three people that agree, then you have a fifty fifty chance of having the
correct directions.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2006 2:30 PM
Subject: [gps-talkusers] A totally interesting day:
Well this was a totally interesting day.
I was walking and exploring when we came upon a 5 way intersection which I dread like the plague.
Anyway Peg stood her ground because she could see asupermarket on the same block.
A man got us across and by jobe we ended up in the lot of the supermarket and a couple helped us out and then I told them I was going to my street which they totally insisted was the opposite way from where I was going. Well, I let them have their way and even drew up a route on the gps and let them ask people who assured them they were going the correct way.
I figured why argue let _them_ find the error of their ways.
Well, we walked about a mile and came upon the other end of my street which I simply let them walk with me down andI set the landmark of a church as my destination. We got to the church and crossed and the woman looked at her husband and said, Honey we had this poor girl going in the wrong dirrection, I think this is what she wanted.
I didn't say a word.
But the map was right there and I know I made many errors and should have declined their assistance but sometimes it is nice to just let the sighted find out for themselves that we blind were correct.
Anyway have any of you gpsers ever had sighted people insist you are going the wrong way when your maps are right in front of your noses telling you you aren't?
Mary Ellen Earls
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