ECKLEBURG
2004-04-17 - 9:34 p.m.
Giving directions to one's spouse, like wallpapering, I believe poses one of the greatest threats to marriage.
We observed this threat first hand today while doing the Washington Make a Wish Scavenger hunt.
We, along with another couple had to dash all through Washington D.C. looking for various "treasures." Now, Grublecake and I have worked out a "system" for effective direction giving. And while our system is not perfect (As in the "incident" a month ago where Eckleburg's pointing at the street we were not supposed to supposed to turn on and saying "NO" loudly occasionally got translated by Grublecake as "you should turn here")
we today experienced that our system is far superior than the couple with whom we scavenged.
We have learned, for example, that if a road forks and the driver has to make a decision to go left or right, the navigator should say “left” while pointing clearly to the left -or- “right” while pointing clearly to the right. Couple number 2, however, used the command “there, there, there!” with indeterminate pointing to specify “right.”
This led, as you can imagine, to some frustration as the message “right” was lost in translation.
Not sure where I was going with this, but I just wanted to give myself an internet high-five for good communication.
Yeay!
