Directionally Challenged/Getting Lost

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I'm not completely terrible with finding my way, but it does take me a while to orient myself. When we moved to a new town my wife drove around for like a week and it was like she'd been there forever. It took me a month to get close to that point.

I was obsessed with clocks for a while. I had them everywhere, and they were all set to the atomic clock. I'd check once a week. If I went more than five minutes without looking at one of my clocks my estimate of what time it is might be off by fifteen minutes to half an hour. On another tangent, without exposure to sunlight or clocks or anything to help me know what time it is I slip to a 36 hour day.

I have that ability too......it really freaks people out sometimes...I usually know to the exact minute (maybe within a minute or two). I don't know where that ability came from.....

Another one I have is that I never get lost. Ever. I can always sort of feel what direction is north, then I can tell what is east west and south, based on what is north......it's amazing how many roads lie and have signs saying they go north but they actually go west and likewise......

I also have a very good visual memory......so I can remember my way around after only being somewhere once (even as a small child when my parents were driving) or just glancing at a map. My friends and family me when they are lost quite frequently, or call me to ask how to get somewhere the need to go....I seem to know my way around the entire state....okay New Jersey isn't that big.......my fiance works all over the state and used to call me several times during a day. He'd rely on me so much he'd drive around in circles until he could get a hold of me. I could be in meetings all day and the poor boy was totally lost......so for his birthday last year I got him a GPS.......now he doesn't have to drive around in circles until I get out of my meetings.

One thing I do have a hard time with is when someone verbally gives me directions, say in a hotel or hospital or another huge building....something like, go down to the end of the hall, make a left, then your second right, then go up the second elevator to the fourth floor then to the end of the hall and make a right.....that sounds like another language to me. I get all flustred and frustrated, because they look at me like I'm ret*d when I ask then to write it down for me.