With a GPS you don't even need to ask for directions most of the time anyway. 


We did get lost twice last year.  The first time because our GPS told us to "Keep going straight."  Only problem was if we kept going straight, we'd have drove right into someone's house.  The second time because i fell asleep, and my wife didn't know the way (and we didn't have our GPS with us).  We didn't need to ask for directions though, because I knew an alternate way (though I hadn't taken that route in about 8 years)

 

Crying really is blackmail though.  Though it's way worse with children when you are in a store and people are staring at you as if you are the worst person in the world for making your children cry.  Thankfully you stop getting that look once they reach a certain age.

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