Is it written on my forehead?

@hvedra (1619)
August 3, 2010 5:18am CST
I often get asked for directions, usually a couple of times a week. I am starting to wonder if I have some kind of magic sign on me that lost people can see! Does this happen to you? Do you often get asked for a particular kind of help because you look like you know something or can do something?
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@bestboy19 (5478)
• United States
5 Aug 10
With me it's people thinking I like playing with children. I don't!
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• Canada
4 Aug 10
Ive noticed that nobody would ask me for anything when my hair was blonde. Now I have red hair and Im being asked all the time. I used to work for the Quebec L*quor Board in a store and we tested this. I was the only blonde, we had a brunette and a man. We would stand in line and see who the customer would pick to get an answer. They always picked the brunette or the man!! Usually the man first. Then I changed my hair color to red and we did the same test and they'd pick the man and then me. So Im guessing you're not blonde?
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@derek_a (10874)
3 Aug 10
Yes, this happens to me quite a lot, and can be quite embarrassing, because we have not long moved to this area, and I don't know my way around properly yet and I know very few road and street names. _Derek
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@celticeagle (159227)
• Boise, Idaho
4 Aug 10
If you seem open to conversation, pleasant, etc. then someone in need of directions is alot more apt to ask you than someone who seems in a hurry and makes no eye contact. If you don't want to be bothered then i would avoid eye contact, don't act open to conversation and always seem in a hurry. Haha
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@Opal26 (17679)
• United States
4 Aug 10
Hi hvedra!This is a funny question to me because I am always out walking around and people in cars always stop me to ask me for directions! If I am in my neighborhood I can sometimes actually give them the right response and help them get where they want to go. But, more often than not I have no idea. I have the worst sense of direction and can barely find my own way anywhere!lol I don't drive a car to begin with, which is a very good thing since I would be lost all the time! My mother does drive and she is always getting lost. She lives in Florida and went somewhere that was 10 minutes from here house (where she has lived for over 20 years) and it ended up taking her over and hour to get home! So it must be genetic!
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@jennyze (7029)
• Indonesia
3 Aug 10
Maybe you are just in the prime spot to be asked directions. It did not happen a lot to me, usually I offered myself to give people direction when I saw them lost.
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@hushi22 (4928)
3 Aug 10
maybe not, but it's just coincident. wow! you surely look native that people ask you about directions. =)
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• China
3 Aug 10
Um..That dont happen on me often may because I am still young.For you,I think it is a approval and trust.Strangers usually ask help from police or people look kind.If I can do something to help others then I love to:)
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