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Thursday, January 20, 2005

worst directions ever


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I was in Calgary a while back. After getting lost driving through the city's endless suburbs, we pulled over and asked some people at a gas station to help us out. A girl who was working there eagerly pulled out a scrap of paper and a pen and began drawing a map for us. You can see the finished product to the right.

Highlights:
  • 14th street runs into large, ill-defined "Downtown" area
  • Directions seem kind of circular
  • Right turn onto unnamed street with the word "Left" written above it
  • Right turn onto another unnamed street
  • "Country Hills West" misspelled as "Contry Hillswest"
  • Directions given do not correspond to actual roads in any way
Our first clue that there was a problem should have been when we offered to just buy a map so she could show us where we were and she said she wouldn't be able to find it.