Directions
I don't do this any more.

When people used to pull over and ask me directions to somewhere I'd *always* send them off in completely the wrong direction.

It made my year when, after sending some guy off to Sunderland ("you won't see the signs for Newcastle until you reach Sunderland mate - they're right next to each other") he came puttering past me a few hours later and screamed:

"BASTARD!!" out of the window.


Cheers
( Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 0:54, 5 replies)

I feel there's no shame in doing this...
...when the person asks without manners. If someone asks politely I'll direct them to the best of my ability. But if someone pulls up next to me and shouts "Oi! Which way to X?"... Well, they're off to Land's End, frankly.
( Olembe Refuses to write in this space, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 9:11, closed)

!?
How the hell did he track you down!? Or did you stand in the same place for 3 hours? lol
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Fri 14 Mar 2008, 12:11, closed)

LOL!
My brother used to do this. Crual but v. funny!
( DUMBLONDE is a rubber lover girl, Sat 15 Mar 2008, 15:51, closed)

I do this too, but with a twist
I give people extremely specific, complicated, and (of course) incorrect directions which include non-existent roads :)
( waffle1 is lurking on, Mon 17 Mar 2008, 0:43, closed)

Work
Commonly when outside work having a smoke I feel like I am lying to tourists looking for directions.

More often than not if someone stops and asks me for directions it's to a certain hotel / concert arena in town. The directions there from work are:

Go to the end of the road, go left, go right, go left, go right, go left, go right and go straight for about a mile and a half.

I know everyone that has asked me how to get there has thought I was lying.
(oeb, Tue 18 Mar 2008, 12:29, closed)