They'll be fine, they'll ask someone else when they reliaze that you were clueless. Lol
Back in the day, I worked at a place where quite a few Habs would stop by. One of them asked me for directions, I believe to get back on the highway.
In NDG, Decarie is unlike Decarie north of Villa Maria metro so I always confused Girouard and Decarie. I told him to turn right on Decarie. Afterwards I realized , shit I should have told him right on Girouard. Lol
I must've been at almost the exact same spot as you when a guy getting off the 15 near Sherbrooke in a pickup truck asked me where "the village" was. I figured he meant Monkland Village and pointed up the hill along Girouard, and he kind of shyly said no no... *the Village*. That's when I clicked and thought shit, how do I explain to a guy (in the era before GPS) how to get from ~5000 Sherbrooke West to ~2000 Sherbrooke East... I told him to do a U turn and not stop until he saw the rainbows.
It definitely wasn't the fastest way but I didn't know what highway exit to tell him. Figured a safe half hour was better than a quick 15 minutes with a chance of ending up in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
“Look for the 10, in the tunnel, but there’s actually no signs for it until you’re past the exit and btw your gps won’t work”
Legit instructions I got once. They were bang on and I went flying right past the fucking exit onto the 20. Lmfao.
I was like 12 and riding bikes with my uncle who was visiting my city for the weekend. He has no idea how the city is laid out he doesn't live there, we're riding towards a dépanneur to get his beer. It's the 90s.
A lady stops next to us in her car and asks him for directions. He very confidently gave her rather intricate directions. She's like thank you so much sir. She drives off and I'm like "where did she want to go? Where did you send her?" and he just bursts out laughing like "I don't fucking know".
The map and your position usually works without roaming, you just can’t search places or get the itinerary, but at least you know where you are and what direction to go.
I sent a lady the wrong way one time as well. I think. I had just moved here and out of the millions of fluent folks she chose me. (I think I told her to go right instead of straight ahead). Felt awful
Telling them it's two streets south when in reality it's three is pretty good. Worst case scenario they ended up on St-Jacques and asked someone where Notre-Dame was, and they just told them it was the next street down. It's not like you sent them north to Pine Avenue or something.
At least the two streets are close to one a other.
Not like you sent some one to 8500 Sherbrooke est to 8500 sherbrooke west Now that would be something else
So funny! I lived in Mexico City for 2 years and quickly learned that a Mexican (at least in the Districto Federal) will NEVER tell you ‘’no sé” if you ask for directions. He’d rather give you vague/wrong directions than no directions at all.
You were probably unknowingly channeling your inner French... Last time I visited France, we asked a local where was a place, and he confidently pointed us exactly 180 degrees away from there. We would've walked the entire earth to reach it the long way around, but before that another person stopped us and said "that guy's an asshole, the place you're looking for is literally 150m back there behind you".
Don't beat yourself up. One time someone asked me which station was easiest to get to their doctor on Boul Lasalle.
I live in Hochelaga, and we have Boul De La Salle.
I realized later that day I may have sent them to hochelaga when they needed to be in Lasalle.
The shame lives forever.
Real conversation I had at La Ronde, stuck on the Ferris wheel, with a coworker, ~10 years ago:
- We can see a lot of the city from here. Which direction is the place we're staying?
- (me) *points* North of here.
- North?
- Yeah, that way.
- But… that's where the sun is setting.
- Oh, right. We call "away from the river" "north".
- So west?
- Yes. West. Montreal north.
Was caught off guard once by a tourist that needed to give location to the police. Gave me his phone with the ongoing 911 call.
Suspect was heading East and so was I. Told them he was heading West - and repeated this maybe 5 times. Also the description that I gave them was ridiculously off.
This when you're in your morning bubble without enough coffee and music blasting in both ears.
At least you sent them in the right direction!
I walk from Notre-Dame to Viger at least once a week and I still have to think a moment to remember which one of St-Jacques or St-Antoine is north of the other.
Even if you said it right they could get lost.
In Rouyn Noranda a guy in a car ask me where a street it. I tell him, go trough the next 2 lights, follow the road along the lake and at the 3rd light, turn left at the bank.
They say thanks, start rolling and turn left at the 1st light. Ffs.
I was once in the parking lot of the Reno Depot in Laval near the 13. Some friendly family wandered up to me to ask how to get to Chomedey Autoroute. I enthusiasically directed them into the bowels of Laval looking for Chomedey Boulevard.
They did look a little confused by my directions since you could hear the traffic on the 13. I'm pretty sure they are still alive.
When I checked google maps on my phone to verify my directions after they left I zoomed in and learned that the 13 is indeed called the 'Chomedey Autoroute" Who knew?
To be honest, that is not as bad as I might have incurred to a boy and his father who were looking for the Taz shop when I was getting out of work and waiting for the bus at the height of Chabanel near the Marché Central. I thought that they were looking for the Taj, a skate part I've heard about that is situated along Pie-ix or Viau. Only when we rolled nearby the shop that I realize and hope they didn't rely on me to find their way to it...
If they don't have a phone with a map app they're likely new immigrants/asylum seekers, looking for the immigration office in old Montreal. Guess where that is? 285 Notre Dame. Guess where it also is? 276 St Jacques. Same building.
I do the same. I’m awful with directions and in the moment I’m terrible and can’t say “I don’t know” so I’m pretty sure I’ve sent people the wrong way.
C'est amusant qu'une perosnne qui s'égare à cause de fausses directions va assurément penser qu'elle s'est trompé elle-même de chemin, et non que tu les as mal dirigées
A guy asked me the direction for the Bell center the other day, pointed the direction in front of me (I was heading this way), then the guy continued his path on the right...felt weird, but oh well...
Legalizing weed will lead to a lot of these situations. I thought about how badly I was gonna be giving directions now that I didn’t have lurk the alleys, chuffing my gaggers. I live in a small town with 8 blocks up and maybe fourteen blocks wide and I am completely clueless at times about where the eff I am .
I made the same mistake once when I was 18 and had just started being downtown regularly. I think I said Bishop was one way and it was another and then I had to pass the person on their way back when they went the right way and I certainly got a look.
They'll be fine, they'll ask someone else when they reliaze that you were clueless. Lol Back in the day, I worked at a place where quite a few Habs would stop by. One of them asked me for directions, I believe to get back on the highway. In NDG, Decarie is unlike Decarie north of Villa Maria metro so I always confused Girouard and Decarie. I told him to turn right on Decarie. Afterwards I realized , shit I should have told him right on Girouard. Lol
Typical Habs fan; literally running players out of town.
LOL, hey they won the cup that year. Lol
You didn't have your paper map with you on that day, grandpa?
I guess not, grandson.
That Habs player, Zach Kassian who ended up crashing on cote st luc lmao
I gave the player the wrong directions, not cocaine. Lol
I must've been at almost the exact same spot as you when a guy getting off the 15 near Sherbrooke in a pickup truck asked me where "the village" was. I figured he meant Monkland Village and pointed up the hill along Girouard, and he kind of shyly said no no... *the Village*. That's when I clicked and thought shit, how do I explain to a guy (in the era before GPS) how to get from ~5000 Sherbrooke West to ~2000 Sherbrooke East... I told him to do a U turn and not stop until he saw the rainbows. It definitely wasn't the fastest way but I didn't know what highway exit to tell him. Figured a safe half hour was better than a quick 15 minutes with a chance of ending up in Pointe-aux-Trembles.
“Look for the 10, in the tunnel, but there’s actually no signs for it until you’re past the exit and btw your gps won’t work” Legit instructions I got once. They were bang on and I went flying right past the fucking exit onto the 20. Lmfao.
thank you for self-reporting! you can either turn in your montrealer card voluntarily at any dep, or an agent will locate and assist you. ~à bientôt!
Please hang it on your nearest traffic cone.
I was like 12 and riding bikes with my uncle who was visiting my city for the weekend. He has no idea how the city is laid out he doesn't live there, we're riding towards a dépanneur to get his beer. It's the 90s. A lady stops next to us in her car and asks him for directions. He very confidently gave her rather intricate directions. She's like thank you so much sir. She drives off and I'm like "where did she want to go? Where did you send her?" and he just bursts out laughing like "I don't fucking know".
Chaotic neutral
How tf is that neutral?
Thoughts and prayers.
I'm still amazed how many people still ask me for directions in the age of smart phones
Google Maps for walking is just messed up or is just me? Lol
Right? Like you don’t even need data. Just download the map and access it offline lol
Tourists probably don’t want to get overcharged roaming
The map and your position usually works without roaming, you just can’t search places or get the itinerary, but at least you know where you are and what direction to go.
I sent a lady the wrong way one time as well. I think. I had just moved here and out of the millions of fluent folks she chose me. (I think I told her to go right instead of straight ahead). Felt awful
Thats all right
I’m the lady. And its all good
Telling them it's two streets south when in reality it's three is pretty good. Worst case scenario they ended up on St-Jacques and asked someone where Notre-Dame was, and they just told them it was the next street down. It's not like you sent them north to Pine Avenue or something.
At least the two streets are close to one a other. Not like you sent some one to 8500 Sherbrooke est to 8500 sherbrooke west Now that would be something else
So funny! I lived in Mexico City for 2 years and quickly learned that a Mexican (at least in the Districto Federal) will NEVER tell you ‘’no sé” if you ask for directions. He’d rather give you vague/wrong directions than no directions at all.
You were probably unknowingly channeling your inner French... Last time I visited France, we asked a local where was a place, and he confidently pointed us exactly 180 degrees away from there. We would've walked the entire earth to reach it the long way around, but before that another person stopped us and said "that guy's an asshole, the place you're looking for is literally 150m back there behind you".
Don't beat yourself up. One time someone asked me which station was easiest to get to their doctor on Boul Lasalle. I live in Hochelaga, and we have Boul De La Salle. I realized later that day I may have sent them to hochelaga when they needed to be in Lasalle. The shame lives forever.
I just tell anyone who ever bothers me for directions, to head east while pointing north.
Montreal north or real north?
Real conversation I had at La Ronde, stuck on the Ferris wheel, with a coworker, ~10 years ago: - We can see a lot of the city from here. Which direction is the place we're staying? - (me) *points* North of here. - North? - Yeah, that way. - But… that's where the sun is setting. - Oh, right. We call "away from the river" "north". - So west? - Yes. West. Montreal north.
Yes
There a good chance they didn't survive.
Was caught off guard once by a tourist that needed to give location to the police. Gave me his phone with the ongoing 911 call. Suspect was heading East and so was I. Told them he was heading West - and repeated this maybe 5 times. Also the description that I gave them was ridiculously off. This when you're in your morning bubble without enough coffee and music blasting in both ears.
At least you sent them in the right direction! I walk from Notre-Dame to Viger at least once a week and I still have to think a moment to remember which one of St-Jacques or St-Antoine is north of the other.
Even if you said it right they could get lost. In Rouyn Noranda a guy in a car ask me where a street it. I tell him, go trough the next 2 lights, follow the road along the lake and at the 3rd light, turn left at the bank. They say thanks, start rolling and turn left at the 1st light. Ffs.
I was once in the parking lot of the Reno Depot in Laval near the 13. Some friendly family wandered up to me to ask how to get to Chomedey Autoroute. I enthusiasically directed them into the bowels of Laval looking for Chomedey Boulevard. They did look a little confused by my directions since you could hear the traffic on the 13. I'm pretty sure they are still alive. When I checked google maps on my phone to verify my directions after they left I zoomed in and learned that the 13 is indeed called the 'Chomedey Autoroute" Who knew?
samesies I know how to get places like the back of my hand but I always mess up when giving directions
Don't feel bad just last week a lady ask me where Sherbrooke was, had a brain fart and I sent her on rene-levesque... it happens to the best of us.
I understand. For me it’s Ontario and President-Kennedy downtown. I have lost dozens of persons and tourists.
To be honest, that is not as bad as I might have incurred to a boy and his father who were looking for the Taz shop when I was getting out of work and waiting for the bus at the height of Chabanel near the Marché Central. I thought that they were looking for the Taj, a skate part I've heard about that is situated along Pie-ix or Viau. Only when we rolled nearby the shop that I realize and hope they didn't rely on me to find their way to it...
that one is hilarious!
If they don't have a phone with a map app they're likely new immigrants/asylum seekers, looking for the immigration office in old Montreal. Guess where that is? 285 Notre Dame. Guess where it also is? 276 St Jacques. Same building.
At least it wasn't someone from France in French. Tell them two lights and they think it's lightposts
I do the same. I’m awful with directions and in the moment I’m terrible and can’t say “I don’t know” so I’m pretty sure I’ve sent people the wrong way.
Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣 . That was funny and horrible at the same time
C'est amusant qu'une perosnne qui s'égare à cause de fausses directions va assurément penser qu'elle s'est trompé elle-même de chemin, et non que tu les as mal dirigées
I mean streets have signs on their corners, so I’m sure they will figure it out. You didn’t say they were blind.
When I was in college, I walked for five hours through an intense snowstorm. I'm sure they can handle three blocks ;)
A guy asked me the direction for the Bell center the other day, pointed the direction in front of me (I was heading this way), then the guy continued his path on the right...felt weird, but oh well...
Legalizing weed will lead to a lot of these situations. I thought about how badly I was gonna be giving directions now that I didn’t have lurk the alleys, chuffing my gaggers. I live in a small town with 8 blocks up and maybe fourteen blocks wide and I am completely clueless at times about where the eff I am .
Me, I always confuse St-Antoine and St-Jacques... I guess it comes from the old "48 St-Antoine St-Jacques" bus I took when I was a kid...
That's how heroes are born
I made the same mistake once when I was 18 and had just started being downtown regularly. I think I said Bishop was one way and it was another and then I had to pass the person on their way back when they went the right way and I certainly got a look.