# Things you've been surprised you've had to explain at work

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**Created:** [May 13, 2021, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-been-surprised-youve-had-to-explain-at-work/941959 "2021-05-13T02:42:26Z")
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### Author: ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2021, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-youve-been-surprised-youve-had-to-explain-at-work/941959/335 "2021-05-19T17:48:29Z")

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> [@Chronos](#):
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> Growing up in Cleveland, I’ve always had a good sense of direction, because I could tell which way the lake was, and that’s north.

Me from a recent thread that included a bunch of digressions about problems with North-awareness:

> [@Your geographical misconceptions](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-geographical-misconceptions/929294/691):
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> My wife, like most women, is a little bit geo-directionally challenged compared to the average guy. Not lost; just a little handicapped vs Joe Average. I’m a navigation whizkid. She grew up in Tucson. Which is a basin surrounded by 4 sets of very differently shaped mountains more or less aligned with the cardinal directions. The roads are mostly a grid and between the mountains and the eternal sunshine, figuring out which way in North is not hard. So we get hitched and she moves to Las Veg…

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