[Magdalen] Safely home

[Christopher Hart]

Wait! You have to be taught to read maps? I thought it was just intuitive.
Honestly, I don't ever remember anyone teaching me about them.

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:42 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> My dad taught me to read maps not long after I learned to read. Of course I
> had a US map puzzle even before that so I kind of understood them. (But
> Florida is *still* pink as far as I'm concerned) Shortly thereafter he
> taught me to read a weather map. I taught my kids when they were fairly
> little just as he'd taught me. When Adam got into the Army he was appalled
> at how many of his fellow recruits couldn't read maps. He was assigned the
> fun job of trying to teach them, which caused him to bang his head against
> the wall a few times, apparently.
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In a message dated 11/13/2014 3:13:15 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jay.weigel at gmail.com writes:
> >
> > I like  it too!>>>
> >
> > I can spend an hour just looking at a good Michelin highway map of
> > Germany; or France; or California; or Pennsylania......etc.
> >
> > My ex-wife was hopeless in reading maps, so I had to be good at it in
> self
> > defense when we lived in Germany.  A good way of solving this  situation
> > would have been for me to do the map reading and for her to drive.
> >
> > Of course she didn't want to drive either.
> >
> >
> > David Strang.
> >
>



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