If it is any consolation, while I’m pretty good with geography, I have no sense of direction. Mrs. FZ is simply amazed that I don’t automatically know which way is North or if we are driving East or West. I’ve never understood how some people just know what way they are facing.
Again this is just so odd. I’m pretty scientifically inclined but just have so little idea of geographical relationships - maybe never interested, maybe something else.
I have a friend in Aus who refuses to believe me when I tell them that when you flush the loo or pull the plug in the bath in the northern hemisphere, the water swirls down in the opposite direction. Calls me “a lying idiot”. And they have a masters in engineering.
The last decade does feel a bit like living in a version of history that was never meant to be. Like novels and films where the Allied powers lost the war - Man in the High Castle kind of stuff.
Somewhere almost a decade ago I fell down the wrong time line and somewhere out there is the real one where things are as they are meant to be.