Without Geography, You're Nowhere!

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Once when I was recruiting ladies for the jewelry company I worked for, I ran an ad in some local papers around the state where I lived, hoping to find a few ladies that would like to make some extra money, selling jewelry. I got several calls and made some good contacts, but one call, I have NEVER forgotten. When I asked the woman where she lived, she gave me the name of a town, that was not familiar to me. So, I asked her, where was this town? She hesitated. So I asked her if she lived in the North, South, East or West of the state. Her answer was, “I don’t rightly know.” I asked her if she was near a city that I might recognize and she said, she didn’t know that either. She said she didn’t drive. That alone disqualified her from being eligible for the job, but I when I hung up, I thought about her response. She didn’t even know where she lived, except for the name of the town. If she had been given a map, she probably wouldn’t have known, where to look for her town. I thought, “How sad.” Then, I thought about the segment on a TV show that asks college graduates to locate MAJOR cities on a map of the U.S. and they have no clue. To me that is just unbelievable. Geography is my favorite subject. I want to know where every place is, but I especially want to know where I am in relation to everywhere else. What do you think?