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Subject:Re: Maps - vs GPS
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:06:51 -0700

Our workaround is when advanced map reading is required, I operate the map
and she drives. Works fine.

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Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
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On 10/12/2009 9:21 AM Daniel O Stevens wrote:

> Obviously, the answer here is.
> You're marrying the wrong wives!
>
> And maybe they never had the rhyme nor reason to do so prior to your engagement, but should have the capacity to learn with a patient teacher. Gender is not a handicap in either mathematics, navigation or heavy lifting.
> But entrust resourcefulness when one must (calculator, GPS, pulleys & levers)
>
>
> My partner is always just that, a partner and if they can't take part in the XYZ...
> Then there is a break in partnership.
>
> Her job isn't to just sit there and look pretty, though at times she does that as well.
> It's an unanticipated multi tasking, I don't discourage.  ;-)
>
> Dan in NY
>
>
> On Oct 9, 2009, at 3:46 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>
>>  can
>>  women within one standard deviation of the median read a map? None
>> of my
>> three wives has ever known how to read a map.
>