to think that if I printed him off THREE MAPS

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AND wrote directions AND an address AND did an asterisk to indicate a road he does know AND drew arrows showing him the relationship between the road he knows and the place he needs to go to AND this is all the same little town by the way, that he should NOT phone me up and get shirty with me because he can't find the road AND expect me to look on multimap and direct him when he is giving me road names that don't even appear ON multimap and blame me for him not being able to find the road.

Does anyone live in Glossop? If so, would you stand outside your front door and shake your fist at any passing hyundai, please?

YANBU.

I thought men were good at reading maps?

I live far far away from Glossop but I will stand outside and shake a fist at passing Hyundais, if thats any help?

Ha. He's crap at maps. And he blames me for it He's just phoned back and said he's on north street.

According to multimap, there IS NO NORTH STREET IN GLOSSOP!

Thanks Paschaelina. That would be much appreciated.

Sounds like he's not in Glossop lol, think he needs to check that first!

there is North road in Glossop though.

And get him a TomTom for his next birthday.
I'm in France, but will go out shake fists too, just to be supportive.

I actually asked him that, Imnotaslimjim he got very cross indeed.

From where he said he was, the first time, which was an actual road in glossop! I said go right. He claimed to have done so then told me he was on some road I couldn't even SEE on the bloody map! Then he had the damn nerve to tell me that clearly I had sent him in the wrong direction. Then he said he was on north street. I said there's no north street, there's a north ROAD, where the hell ARE you? and he huffed at me like I had nipped into glossop and renamed all the roads or something

I have the map open in another tab. If he ever finds his smegging way home, I am going to rub his nose in it.

pan lives in glossop. Why did he leave mumsnet? he could have helped me!

Ha ha! I can sympathise with you as many members of my family seem to be like this. No matter how much trouble you go to to give directions and maps they still screw it up.

When it was DDs christening I had sent my DSis three maps with increasing levels of detail as they got closer to our house - plus written directions because she had never been over before (we live quite a way away) On the day she ended up travelling with my other Sis (who had been before so should have known the way) and my Mum (who had also been several times before but no-one in their right mind would ever, ever rely on Mum for directions.) They still got lost and arrived so late that we were about to leave the house for the Church and I had lined up an emergency stand in Godmother as that should have been DSis. Turns out that I had helpfully indicated on the map where there was a big Tesco as I thought it would be a useful landmark. They spotted another big Tesco when they were about 10 miles away and tried to follow the directions from there..... So of course it was all my fault!

Stop enabling his incompetence. You are allowing him to be a prat and blame you. Even if he's your son and not your DH, it's time he took responsibility for his own actions.
Let him work out where he's going and get lost and found without involving you. Why are you drawing maps and listening to him fuss?

You're right, of course.

He's back now. I showed him the map and forced him to admit I was right.