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When I was a Cussy, one of my jobs was teaching surveillance techniques, which being an old school Dept, involved OS maps, A-Z's and so on.“ok caller, do you know where you are?”
“Near somewhere called Craig Dubh?”
“There’s about eleventybillion Craig Dubhs in Scotland, can you give us another clue?”
“I’m on Ben Doon?”
“Well that’s narrowed it down to about ten, any chance of a grid reference?”
“A what?”
“FFS”
etc
It was very noticeable that the advent of smartphones seemed to morph a generation incapable of of coping with paper but utterly dependent on a 2" screen and not very good at looking out of a window to match features to maps.
It does however, still bring a tear to my eye when one Doris, who was congenitally incapable of reading anything more complicated than Hello! proudly told me that " Oooooo, I know why you lot know where you are, it's cos North is always at the top innit!!"
It was , I suppose, a starter for 1.