What kind of confusion is most frustrating to YOU?
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Kimery,
My dd’s friend lived not too far from us in a rather rural area. No street signs and the roads were not even paved. Turn right at the big tree was the only kind of directions she could give and I was soooo lost! ROFL She stood in the driveway waving us down!Gay,
I understand how frustrating it can be to speak clearly but have someone be so confused and befuddled by life that they can’t understand. Sometimes we need to word things differently, maybe even less simply, in order for it to click for them. Life is complicated and sometimes folks expect things to be complicated so they can’t see the simplicity of some things. First rule of communication is, it’s the speakers job to be understood; not the listener’s job to try and understand. It can be difficult to try to reword things when we are already clear, but it’s often invaluable in being understood. -
Confounding things for me are:
1) The fact that I can take photos with my cell phone but cannot download them to my PC (unless I spend the $$ on a special memory card)
2) When I think I’m communicating thoroughly and the person(s) I’m speaking to still don’t understand and/or follow simple directions.
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My husband HATES these kind of directions (or in his words taking directions from a farmer or a woman): Go to the third set of triple lights. When you come to the old oak tree with a yellow ribbon on it, turn left there. Go, for oh, about 6 blocks and turn right at the house with the pink roof and green shutters. Keep going until you see a church with a big steeple and turn left there. It’s about 6 houses down from you then. You can’t miss it. LOL
He wants street signs and ‘north, south, east, west, left or right’.
Me? I like mapquest AND the written directions it has with it. Hubby? Just wants the map. Our children are pretty evenly split so far, I think. One of our daughters, takes the GPS to find a friend’s house here in town and Waterloo isn’t all THAT big! LOL -
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