Asking for directions

Google maps is pretty good, but sometimes it'll steer you wrong.

This weekend a friend of mine was going to see a play at the local high school, so she pulled out her phone and got directions.

The directions were great. That is, they would have been if she had wanted to go to the old high school, which has been the local middle school for the last two years.

Fortunately she was smart enough to ask a passerby where the new high school really was. She made it there before the curtain opened and enjoyed the show about as much as anybody can enjoy a high school play.

Here's the thing:

The typical authoritative sources — online documentation, tutorials, and the rest — are usually great. But when they're not, it can help a lot to ask directions from someone who knows the territory.

All the best,
A.