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Do You Get Lost In Parking Lots?
I have a lousy sense of direction. It doesn’t take much for me to get spacially disoriented, and though I joke about having trouble navigating my way out of a closet, it’s no laughing matter. With large parking structures, I’m practically phobic. Even when I carefully note the floor and zone, and try to remember visual cues, one wrong turn out of the elevator, and I’m lost. At the San Francisco Airport, after a tearful sendoff to a German guy I’d been sleeping with, I headed to the garage, only to realize I had NO IDEA where I was parked. Grief stricken (in that special bi-continental love affair kind of way) I wandered from floor to floor. After 45 anxious minutes, I begged a security attendant for help. But now, there’s Auto Finder, a device that will wirelessly track your car within a ½ mile range. Long distance romance, bring it on! On second thought….
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I too have a frighteningly poor sense of direction. The very first time I drove to the mall after I got my driver’s license, I couldn’t find my car. Like you, even when I remember which floor, zone, etc., I’m likely to make one wrong turn and wander around the lot for several minutes. When I was in law school, whenever I went up or down a set of stairs in the building, I never was entirely sure where I’d wind up. I can’t seem to crack this problem, and I’d be in serious trouble without my GPS.