Do you know how to use a map? Not a pre-printed MapQuest route, but a real, paper-backed, pirate-style map. It’s okay to admit you don’t…

As a millennial, I never heard the end of my mom’s generation’s (the boomers) pride about being directionally savvy, remembering the street name of their childhood best friend, and the verbal directions to their favorite corner store with eerie accuracy. The technology of their age explains this skillset. Throughout their lives, boomer drivers had an atlas stowed away in their 1979 Ford Pinto alongside archaic roadmaps with yellowing pages and crinkled up edges. If the boomer generation wanted to drive somewhere, they had to either recall directions from memory or decipher the lines and squiggles of a physical map. 

However, it’s not exactly road safe to whip out a 4ft map, a compass, and a protractor at the nearest red light when you’re feeling lost.