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Especially aggravating for those with [[No Sense of Direction]], or a [[Directionless Driver]].
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== Anime ==
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* The opening number of the musical ''Plain And Fancy'', which is actually titled "You Can't Miss It."
* [http://consumerist.com/consumer/google/google-suggests-you-swim-across-the-atlantic-ocean-248199.php Google suggests you swim across the Atlantic Ocean].▼
** If going between China and Japan, it suggests you jet ski the Pacific.▼
* The "giving directions by where things used to be" thing is not uncommon in small towns everywhere. Everybody knows where the grocery store/highschool/police station used to be.▼
* Never try to navigate Oakland, CA at street level using a GPS device.▼
* In extremely rural areas, directions tend to use things like barns, silos and unusual trees as markers. This is more a matter of necessity than any desire to be mean on the part of the direction-giver—there simply aren't that many other landmarks that can be used and roads are often poorly marked.▼
* Georgia residents have, as a sort of state-wide [[Inside Joke]], the phrase "If you see the Big Chicken, you've gone too far." The Big Chicken, incidentally, is a KFC made to look like, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well...]]▼
== Video Games ==
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* The ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' short "There Auto Be a Law" had a [[Running Gag]] of a man in a complicated overpass asking a hamburger stand attendant for directions to the main road. The attendant keeps giving him different directions, ending each time with "you can't miss". At the end of the cartoon, the attendant confesses that he doesn't know how to get out of the overpass, and that he opened the stand to keep from starving to death.
* In the ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' episode "Custard", Danger Mouse is searching space for a custard-eating alien that can help thwart Baron Greenback's plot to flood the world with custard, and asks another alien for directions. The alien obligingly gives him complicated directions, complete with seemingly-random pointing and obscure landmarks ("...turn left at the planet with the little pink rocks and the shops that close on Thursdays...").
== Real Life ==
▲* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090621160543/http://consumerist.com/consumer/google/google-suggests-you-swim-across-the-atlantic-ocean-248199.php Google suggests you swim across the Atlantic Ocean].
▲** If going between China and Japan, it suggests you jet ski the Pacific.
▲* The "giving directions by where things used to be" thing is not uncommon in small towns everywhere. Everybody knows where the grocery store/
▲* Never try to navigate Oakland, CA at street level using a GPS device.
▲* In extremely rural areas, directions tend to use things like barns, silos and unusual trees as markers. This is more a matter of necessity than any desire to be mean on the part of the direction-giver—there simply aren't that many other landmarks that can be used and roads are often poorly marked.
▲* Georgia residents have, as a sort of state-wide [[Inside Joke]], the phrase "If you see the Big Chicken, you've gone too far." The Big Chicken, incidentally, is a KFC made to look like, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well...]]
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