|
Users viewing this topic:
none
|
|
Login  | |
|
Need directions - 4/23/2008 7:44:42 AM
|
|
|
funny_girl
Posts: 787
Status: offline
|
Why is it humbling for a man to ask for directions?
_____________________________
"...bad report and good report; genuine, yet regarded as imposters; known yet regarded as unknown...poor, yet making many rich; having nothing, and yet possessing everything." II Corinthians 6:8-10
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/23/2008 9:32:03 AM
|
|
|
broyce1981
Posts: 1333
Joined: 8/8/2006
Status: offline
|
It's not a question of being humble, I know where I am going! : )
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/23/2008 9:40:16 AM
|
|
|
wizzer
Posts: 3
Joined: 6/14/2005
Status: offline
|
For some guys, asking directions is equivalent to giving up or losing. For them, finding the way without assistance is a challenge or a game. Other guys see this behavior as an inefficient use of time and stop for directions. Usually, I fall into the latter category because I like being places early or on time. On the rare occasion that I'm going to arrive extra early and have nothing to fill the time, I'll sometimes fall into the former category (if I don't have directions or get lost).
< Message edited by wizzer -- 4/23/2008 9:58:16 AM >
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/23/2008 8:23:16 PM
|
|
|
Technophile
Posts: 31
Joined: 3/21/2008
Status: offline
|
i like maps, so i would prefer to find my way on a map rather than asking directions. i am a visual learner when it comes to finding my way, and a map helps me gain a perspective of how far to go, how the road bends (and using that as a landmark), and using other spacial relationships along the route to find my way. i frequently use google earth/maps to view my route using the satellite images, and go by that.
if i ask directions, i'd be more likely to forget them, and i dont find verbal directions to be as useful as looking over a route on a map, because verbal directions dont give me the perspective.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/23/2008 8:33:34 PM
|
|
|
mrtigger
Posts: 292
Joined: 4/12/2005
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: funny_girl
Why is it humbling for a man to ask for directions?
It's not about being humbled. It's that I see no reason to believe some arbitrary person on the street will direct me any better than I can myself.
One of my (ornery) friends used to work at a gas station. Tourists would sometimes stop and ask him for directions and he would deliberately send them the wrong way. He thought it was really funny. He is not unusual either -- there are lots of jerks in the world.
So, there is no reason to trust another person for directions unless I have no other choice. It's about trust, not about ego.
_____________________________
mr tigger
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/24/2008 9:06:08 AM
|
|
|
vajent
Posts: 71
Joined: 5/5/2005
Status: offline
|
For me, asking for directions makes me feel like I'm incompetent and that I'm giving in to my frustrations. I already feel incompetent and frustrated enough in other parts of my life. I just figure that in our age of maps, GPS, and street signs everywhere, I oughta be able to get from point A to point B. Plus, I have a pretty good track record of sorting things out and getting where I'm going on those occasions where I've gotten a little lost.
_____________________________
JFF
http://jasonffoster.blogspot.com
Whatever the heart most desires, the mind justifies, and the will chooses.
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/24/2008 9:27:03 AM
|
|
|
YZGUY
Posts: 249
Joined: 3/9/2008
Status: offline
|
It's the challenge, the learning, and the desire to achieve. The pride at success! Which is one of the reasons men enjoy work (also, we were created to work the garden, so it makes sense that success and achievement at what we have done mean so much and failure means so much (in the bad way) too.)
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/24/2008 10:48:32 AM
|
|
|
NoShow
Posts: 358
Joined: 5/10/2005
Status: offline
|
I don't mind stopping to ask for directions. I don't really "like" driving, so the sooner Ican get where I'm going the better to me.
From my (guy) friends that do mind, I hear it's the same as why women refuse to put the toilet seat back up.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/24/2008 6:02:03 PM
|
|
|
PreserveWildlife
Posts: 1231
Joined: 4/13/2005
From: Tennessee
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: funny_girl
Why is it humbling for a man to ask for directions?
I wouldn't know. I ask for directions whenever I need them.
_____________________________
Neil's Photo Tips.
Certified MCTS .NET Web
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/24/2008 10:14:59 PM
|
|
|
colliefan
Posts: 2230
Joined: 4/12/2005
From: Raleigh, NC
Status: offline
|
No. I admit it when I need directions: both spiritual and physical.
_____________________________
The grace of God is infinite and eternal. As it had no beginning, so it can have no end, and being an attribute of God, it is as boundless as infinitude.
A. W. Tozer (1897–1963)
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/25/2008 6:54:17 PM
|
|
|
trainfan
Posts: 2638
Joined: 7/26/2007
From: neither here nor there
Status: offline
|
I spent many years in field service and have an excellent sense of direction. I rarely if ever had to ask for directions but did when I had to.
B/C of the "jerks" I usually got directions from fire stations, police stations/officers or road commision crews or offices all of these people know where just about everything is and have no reason to steer you wrong.
_____________________________
Buy local, support local retailers.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 4/25/2008 11:47:30 PM
|
|
|
APZR
Posts: 693
Joined: 4/18/2005
From: GA
Status: offline
|
quote:
B/C of the "jerks" I usually got directions from fire stations, police stations/officers or road commision crews or offices all of these people know where just about everything is and have no reason to steer you wrong.
Good point. Thinking back to my prior career, I got a lot of people flagging me down when on duty in the rescue truck to ask for directions.
_____________________________
Ya can't keep trouble from visitin, but you don't have to offer it a chair.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 5/1/2008 1:22:51 PM
|
|
|
SavedByGraceMD
Posts: 631
Joined: 2/13/2008
From: the poconos
Status: offline
|
I don't know, I don't have that problem, but I have never been lost  . Seriously, I try to get my directions before I leave the house, but if I need to stop, then I stop.
But I guess some men take that as an assault on their manhood or something.
_____________________________
Romans 5:8
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 5/1/2008 8:20:33 PM
|
|
|
gengwall
Posts: 213
Joined: 4/12/2005
From: MN
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: wizzer
For some guys, asking directions is equivalent to giving up or losing. For them, finding the way without assistance is a challenge or a game. Other guys see this behavior as an inefficient use of time and stop for directions. Usually, I fall into the latter category because I like being places early or on time. On the rare occasion that I'm going to arrive extra early and have nothing to fill the time, I'll sometimes fall into the former category (if I don't have directions or get lost).
I align with this answer the most. It isn't that a guy will NEVER ask for directions, its just that he wants to try and solve the problem on his own until he has exhausted his resources and cunning.
Men are spacial thinkers and and cognitive (do the problem in your head) problem solvers and finding one's way in unfamiliar territory is an excellent exercise in a skill that has become unnecessary in normal everyday life (since we no longer go out hunting, scouting new territory, and launching projectiles at other people.) The reason why men don't ask for directions relates a great deal to the reason men are so into sports. Both challenges allow us to engage in activity that we are good at and which we get few opportunities to pursue in the mundane existence of industrialized society.
For more information on this, an excellent read is "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps" by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease
< Message edited by gengwall -- 5/1/2008 8:28:54 PM >
_____________________________
DOGBERRY on posters:
They have committed false report;
moreover, they have spoken untruths;
secondarily, they are slanders;
sixth and lastly, they have belied;
thirdly, they have verified unjust things;
and, to conclude, they are lying knaves
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 5/9/2008 5:28:41 PM
|
|
|
humbleinspirit
Posts: 14087
Joined: 4/13/2005
From: Just Outside of Boston
Status: offline
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: gengwall
quote:
ORIGINAL: wizzer
For some guys, asking directions is equivalent to giving up or losing. For them, finding the way without assistance is a challenge or a game. Other guys see this behavior as an inefficient use of time and stop for directions. Usually, I fall into the latter category because I like being places early or on time. On the rare occasion that I'm going to arrive extra early and have nothing to fill the time, I'll sometimes fall into the former category (if I don't have directions or get lost).
I align with this answer the most. It isn't that a guy will NEVER ask for directions, its just that he wants to try and solve the problem on his own until he has exhausted his resources and cunning.
Men are spacial thinkers and and cognitive (do the problem in your head) problem solvers and finding one's way in unfamiliar territory is an excellent exercise in a skill that has become unnecessary in normal everyday life (since we no longer go out hunting, scouting new territory, and launching projectiles at other people.) The reason why men don't ask for directions relates a great deal to the reason men are so into sports. Both challenges allow us to engage in activity that we are good at and which we get few opportunities to pursue in the mundane existence of industrialized society.
For more information on this, an excellent read is "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps" by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease
I agree with this post.
_____________________________
|
|
|
|
|
RE: Need directions - 5/9/2008 7:37:25 PM
|
|
|
TomTurn
Posts: 758
Joined: 3/13/2008
Status: offline
|
quote:
I align with this answer the most. It isn't that a guy will NEVER ask for directions, its just that he wants to try and solve the problem on his own until he has exhausted his resources and cunning.
Men are spacial thinkers and and cognitive (do the problem in your head) problem solvers and finding one's way in unfamiliar territory is an excellent exercise in a skill that has become unnecessary in normal everyday life (since we no longer go out hunting, scouting new territory, and launching projectiles at other people.) The reason why men don't ask for directions relates a great deal to the reason men are so into sports. Both challenges allow us to engage in activity that we are good at and which we get few opportunities to pursue in the mundane existence of industrialized society.
For more information on this, an excellent read is "Why Men Don't Listen and Women Can't Read Maps" by Allan Pease and Barbara Pease
Ditto.
Two needs built into a man is to hunt and to explore. In the quest of the hunt for the place, he discovers other things he did not know and files them away for use in the future.
So ladies rather than set there and nag or complain. Enjoy the trip and watch how the male mind works.
< Message edited by TomTurn -- 5/9/2008 7:44:07 PM >
|
|
|
|
 New Messages |
 No New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/ New Messages |
 Hot Topic w/o New Messages |
 Locked w/ New Messages |
 Locked w/o New Messages |
|
 Post New Thread
Reply to Message
Post New Poll
Submit Vote
Delete My Own Post
Delete My Own Thread
Rate Posts |
|
|
Forum Tools
Printable Version
