Whatever You Want Honey

When you are driving in the car and you get directions from the Navigator that conflict with what you know to be accurate directions, what do you do?

Let me explain a little further. You are traveling to a place that you have never been before. Your Navigator happens to be your wife (or significant other) and the directions that you printed from MapQuest do not “feel” right.

Do you:

1. Listen to what the Navigator says.
2. Be the Captain and have the Navigator stand down from their duties.
3. Ignore the Navigator and use your keen intuition.

There are two ways that this can play out. Correct directions from MapQuest (seldom correct, may I add) or Incorrect directions from MapQuest.

Correct directions:

1. If you listen to the Navigator then you get there and the only tension you have is your own because you felt like you had a “better way”.
2. If you take the directions from the Navigator you arrive at your destination, you feel slightly thwarted because the directions were actually correct and your Navigator doesn’t speak to you the rest of the day and you have to sleep in the Galley because Captain’s Quarters are “off limits”.
3. You ignored the Navigator and did your own thing. You arrived at your destination but you are much later than you anticipated and the Navigator is fuming. Your Navigator doesn’t speak to you the rest of the day and you have to sleep in the Galley because Captain’s Quarters are “off limits”.

Incorrect Directions:

1. If you listen to the Navigator and you arrived at your destination but you are much later than you anticipated, the Navigator is mad at MapQuest. You may be fuming at the Navigator for the delay, but it was out of their control, but you button your lip and say nothing with the exception of agreeing that MapQuest was wrong.
2. If you take the directions from the Navigator to try and figure it out on your own. You arrived at your destination but you are much later than you anticipated and the Navigator is fuming at MapQuest and you, and you have to sleep in the Galley because Captain’s Quarters are “off limits”.
3. You ignored the Navigator and did your own thing. You arrived at your destination but you are much later than you anticipated and the Navigator is fuming at MapQuest and you, and you have to sleep in the Galley because Captain’s Quarters are “off limits”.

The problem is, you do not know if the directions are correct to begin with, so how do you win each time?

Use Yahoo! Maps. And whatever you do, listen to the Navigator. You can never go wrong.

- D