# Giving directions to strangers

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-directions-to-strangers/660626>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 10, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-directions-to-strangers/660626 "2013-06-10T15:42:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-directions-to-strangers/660626/41 "2013-06-18T12:40:53Z")

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[Just For Laughs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go75-3WMBjs)

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> Two tourists are looking for the Montreal Olympic stadium, but they don’t notice the huge Olympic stadium right behind them.

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**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-directions-to-strangers/660626/42 "2013-06-18T15:36:29Z")

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> [@mkecane](#):
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> “You can’t get there from here.”

When I was lost in Boston, many years ago, I asked a cop for directions and that’s what he told me. Then he pointed in a direction and told me to go until I saw another cop and ask HIM for directions because maybe you could get there from there.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-directions-to-strangers/660626/43 "2013-06-18T15:50:46Z")

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> [@Zsofia](#):
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> When I was lost in Boston, many years ago, I asked a cop for directions and that’s what he told me. Then he pointed in a direction and told me to go until I saw another cop and ask HIM for directions because maybe you could get there from there.

Hey, farmer, have you lived here all your life?  
Not yet.

Where does this road go?  
Lived here all my life, and it ain’t gone nowhere yet.

How _do_ you get to Little Rock?  
You can’t get there from here.

Farmer, you don’t know very much.  
I ain’t lost.

Farmer, there’s not much between you and a fool!  
Naw, just this here picket fence.

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**Author:** ![Merneith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/57b2e6/32.png) [@Merneith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merneith)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/giving-directions-to-strangers/660626/44 "2013-06-18T16:59:18Z")

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Give them directions and then realize, ten minutes later, that I sent them the wrong way.

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