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Route rows

Aug 3 2008 Sunday Sun

MOST of us here in the North are useless at planning car journeys, according to a map company’s recent survey.

Here’s how it usually works in this household, where the word “right” can be interpreted as a direction or an affirmative.

Passenger: “Turn left here.”

Driver: “I turn left, right?”

Passenger: “Not right, left, right.”

Driver: “Right, not left.”

Passenger: “No, left, not right, and I knew I should have done the driving.”

By this time, you‘ve gone neither right, nor left, but straight ahead and have to turn around. Then it starts again.

Passenger: “Turn right here . . . “

Multimap, who commissioned the survey, say we have the highest number of rows with partners over route planning. And most of those are in my little red Citroen.

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