In the Wild Wild Wood

What's all this stuff about women being poor at finding their way around, navigating and so on, whereas men are good at it? Over this past week I have read an article making serious claims that this assertion could soon become fact due to some such research or other. My Mother in Law said that she was always getting lost and not know her way around, even in relatively well known areas, and that she leaves the directions up to him - she indicates my Father in Law with a jerk of her thumb. I've seen 'him' take the michael something rotten when she's gone trolling off in the opposite direction, waiting for her to get right the way up the hill, or whatever, before calling her back.

Now, my husband has got a Sat Nav, which I asked his parents to get him for Christmas because I was getting fed up with being the map reader with my failing eye sight and tendency to travel sickness. Now that he's got one he refuses to use it and says that he doesn't need it - he says he knows his way around anyway and thought that I needed something to do on long journeys!

So, how has he been doing without me map reading? Well, alright I have to say, but whether its because he has some in-built compass or not I'm not so sure. It could be that he's just checking the route before hand, which he never used to, and since he has boastfully claimed that he doesn't need a Sat Nav, he now has to prove it or face the shame. However, now that I have been thinking along these lines as to whether there is any truth in women being poor at direction, over the years we have often been walking in woods and forests in areas that are new to us. I have always been secretly impressed by the way that he has navigated us back out, when I have to confess, I wouldn't have had a clue. Now, that is a thing to ponder on.