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I feel sorry for my son... gone are the "good old days". :(
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<blockquote data-quote="RidgeHunter" data-source="post: 1569329" data-attributes="member: 4319"><p>This kid will be light-years ahead of his peers when he moves out and has to start doing things on his own. It's amazing how many of my friends didn't/don't know how to do a variety of simple daily tasks required of an adult, because their parents have always done everything for them. And many of their parents still do every singe thing for them up through college, then turn a 24 year old baby loose into the world.</p><p></p><p>My friend called me incredulous one night because he had several friends over and they were in an argument about city blocks. Apparently one of them said <em>"I wish house numbers had some kind of system so they are easier to find instead of just being random".</em> My friend said <em>"They do, it's a grid layout and they are called hundred blocks."</em> </p><p></p><p>Nobody in the room believed him, they thought streets were laid out randomly. He finally got them to understand it on the north-south streets in Tulsa (named). <em>"4100 S. Memorial is 41st and Memorial, right?"</em> They said they were with him. <em>"Now, the east-west (named) streets are numbered too. In a city block grid layout pattern. You can locate yourself by these numbers and tell where you are on said east-west street. They are not random, they run in a pattern." </em>They could not grasp that. They had to just be random numbers. <em>"How can you have a house number and the house next to it not be in sequential order?" </em>Sigh. </p><p></p><p>He called me and said "Hey, if I say hundred block what am I talking about?" </p><p><em>"Street layouts?" </em></p><p>"YES!!! THANK YOU! Are house numbers random or is there a gridded layout for the block numbers?" </p><p><em>"Uhh...how could they be random? Of course there is a layout."</em></p><p>"RIGHT!!!?"</p><p></p><p>My friends dad used to give him a highway map on road trips when he was a kid and say <em>"Get us back home; I'll go where you tell me."</em> He was blown away to learn that everybody can't navigate a city based on block numbers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RidgeHunter, post: 1569329, member: 4319"] This kid will be light-years ahead of his peers when he moves out and has to start doing things on his own. It's amazing how many of my friends didn't/don't know how to do a variety of simple daily tasks required of an adult, because their parents have always done everything for them. And many of their parents still do every singe thing for them up through college, then turn a 24 year old baby loose into the world. My friend called me incredulous one night because he had several friends over and they were in an argument about city blocks. Apparently one of them said [I]"I wish house numbers had some kind of system so they are easier to find instead of just being random".[/I] My friend said [I]"They do, it's a grid layout and they are called hundred blocks."[/I] Nobody in the room believed him, they thought streets were laid out randomly. He finally got them to understand it on the north-south streets in Tulsa (named). [I]"4100 S. Memorial is 41st and Memorial, right?"[/I] They said they were with him. [I]"Now, the east-west (named) streets are numbered too. In a city block grid layout pattern. You can locate yourself by these numbers and tell where you are on said east-west street. They are not random, they run in a pattern." [/I]They could not grasp that. They had to just be random numbers. [I]"How can you have a house number and the house next to it not be in sequential order?" [/I]Sigh. He called me and said "Hey, if I say hundred block what am I talking about?" [I]"Street layouts?" [/I] "YES!!! THANK YOU! Are house numbers random or is there a gridded layout for the block numbers?" [I]"Uhh...how could they be random? Of course there is a layout."[/I] "RIGHT!!!?" My friends dad used to give him a highway map on road trips when he was a kid and say [I]"Get us back home; I'll go where you tell me."[/I] He was blown away to learn that everybody can't navigate a city based on block numbers. [/QUOTE]
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