Would you stop and ask for directions if you were lost?
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Would you stop and ask for directions if you were lost?
Im guilty of this. I hate stopping for directions if Im lost
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Study: Average male drives extra 276 miles/year because he won't stop for directions
That long-running joke about men unwilling to stop for directions? Well, it's no joke, at least not according to British insurance firm Sheilas' Wheels. In fact, the average male motorist in Britain travels some 276 extra miles per year simply because he refuses to ask for directions. Worse yet, that amounts to £2,000 ($3,100) worth of wasted fuel over the stubborn man's lifetime.
In the UK, 25 percent of all men would rather wander aimlessly for up to a half hour before stopping to ask for directions, and one in 10 simply refuse to ask altogether. On the flip side, three quarters of women polled have zero qualms about asking for help. And here's our favorite stat: 41 percent of men admitted to telling their passengers that they knew where they were going... even though they didn't.
Though the study took place in the UK, we'd bet that, if anything, it's worse here in the States. After all, as a much larger country with sometimes huge stretches between destinations, we probably waste more time and fuel pretending like we know exactly where we're going.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/27/study-a...ecause-he-wont/
That long-running joke about men unwilling to stop for directions? Well, it's no joke, at least not according to British insurance firm Sheilas' Wheels. In fact, the average male motorist in Britain travels some 276 extra miles per year simply because he refuses to ask for directions. Worse yet, that amounts to £2,000 ($3,100) worth of wasted fuel over the stubborn man's lifetime.
In the UK, 25 percent of all men would rather wander aimlessly for up to a half hour before stopping to ask for directions, and one in 10 simply refuse to ask altogether. On the flip side, three quarters of women polled have zero qualms about asking for help. And here's our favorite stat: 41 percent of men admitted to telling their passengers that they knew where they were going... even though they didn't.
Though the study took place in the UK, we'd bet that, if anything, it's worse here in the States. After all, as a much larger country with sometimes huge stretches between destinations, we probably waste more time and fuel pretending like we know exactly where we're going.
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/27/study-a...ecause-he-wont/
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"Would you stop and ask for directions if you were lost?"
Depends on how lost I am.
I mean, if I'm so lost I can't find anybody,
I probably won't be able to ask anyone for directions!
Probably.
Depends on how lost I am.
I mean, if I'm so lost I can't find anybody,
I probably won't be able to ask anyone for directions!
Probably.
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kinda hard to get lost where i live. unlike the eastern states we are based on a grid system where every country road has one mile intervals. pretty much everything also runs either north and south or east to west.
with the inventions of GPS or even GPS enabled phones you are kind of a tool if you get lost.
with the inventions of GPS or even GPS enabled phones you are kind of a tool if you get lost.
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There was this one time when I was eating red meat and listening to music with lots of booming bass while driving that I realized that I was lost. So I pulled over, and laid down. I was able to calculate which direction was north based upon the time of day, using my man-tool as a sun-dial. Once I got satisfactory results, I put my pants back on. Then I punched a kitten, got back in the car and drove off using my cell phone as a map. True story.
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Thats cause you asked me and I was in the car with you and just as lost as you where.
Remember that time we where drivin to your dads and we both get that weird ass vibe at the same time and you got your pistol from the trunk and lapsat it for the rest of the drive? Your pops lives in some freaky ass woods man.
Remember that time we where drivin to your dads and we both get that weird ass vibe at the same time and you got your pistol from the trunk and lapsat it for the rest of the drive? Your pops lives in some freaky ass woods man.