Giving Directions

**Tink** · 09-12-2008, 01:52 AM

I don't think you need any help from me with that, Becca!

**Beccaberry** · 09-12-2008, 01:56 AM

Ok then, perhaps just better at it

So then, how do you tell them? Something like, "Javitz Center by way of Elm and Main Street, please."

Or something different?

**Tink** · 09-12-2008, 01:58 AM

Yes. Javitz Center please. Take 5th to ... to... stop at the first set of doors. No nonsense voice. Clear, a tiny loud (but not bellowing) and as uninflected English as I can muster.

Sometimes, I give them a time frame.

**Beccaberry** · 09-12-2008, 02:04 AM

**foreverducky** · 09-12-2008, 07:03 AM

Don't even get me started on cab drivers. Grrrr.

**Slowhand** · 09-12-2008, 08:40 AM

Although there must be some "bad eggs" out there, certainly the London taxi drivers [cabbies] are well known for their knowledge of London and for not ripping off Joe Public.
Even though I usually know where I am going, I tend to leave it to them as they know all of the side streets to get you from A to B as soon as possible based on my experience.

**Tink** · 09-12-2008, 12:35 PM

That's good to know, Slowhand!

I've actually had NYC cabbies ask me how to get where I wanted to go!

One time it was the Pier!! I was going to the trade flower show at pier 31. Trust me. I don't know how you can be a cabbie in NYC and not even know what direction the pier was in.

And for what it matters he was a white/native English speaker).