When you have no sense of direction

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Directions often confuse me. I often stop people I'm the middle of:

"oh it is real easy to get there. Take a right onto... and then the road goes like this and..."

I just can't visualise what they tell me. Work places have sent me somewhere and it has taken me twice the time it should have done because I get lost so easily.

Re: left and right, well, as a child it took me a long time to learn. I lived near a beach and I remember that, when I was walking to the beach, the arcade would be on my right, and the beach on my left. Whenever I have to do something that involves left or right, I still visualise the beach on one side, the arcade on the other.

Really?

When I was child I would just ask myself "which hand would I use to grab a crayon to draw with?" .Since I am right handed I would feel the nerves in my right arm fire up in response to the thought of using a crayon or pencil. And that's how I taught myself which side is "right". Kinda assumed that everyone did it that way.

That is such a great solution. I am sad to say that I never thought of such a solution. Now that you mention it, I don't think I ever considered which hand I was using. Possibly I didn't know which hand was which.

It's easier to say go straight or turn left or right and point that direction.

That is me EXACTLY.

I need GPS to get anywhere new.

I never thought that it was possible to know which side is what direction if you don't have a device to tell you or know a static object(building, statue, sea etc.) which stands for a particular direction from where you stand. I don't even have a sense of left and right and sometimes even up and down is a bit tricky.

If you cant afford a GPS device then you can just buy a 79 cent black plastic compass from Track Auto and stick it on your dashboard. I have both things, but haven't got around to unpacking my GPS because the cheap compass does 90 percent of what I want from a GPS (knowing what compass direction I am going is all that I need to know most of the time when I am lost).

Well...when I was that age (like eight) all the grownups in my life had already told me that I was "right handed". So I knew that the arm that wanted to grab a crayon had to be my right arm. So I built upon that.

But my cousin, a middle aged physics professor, still cant tell left from right. He told us that someone told him to remember it this way: "when you're driving a car your wife is always on your right, and your wife is always right.".