Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Cold weather appears to offer up some disorientation. Today on the Nicollet Mall a young woman asked me the location of the Minneapolis Art Institute. When I pointed to the south and said about a mile that way she turned to the north and said "I go to school there. I know it's downtown." I responded "do you mean the Art International Institutes Minneapolis?" "Yes." I pointed the way saying "go a block west, a block north and another block west." Four hours later a man and woman stopped me on the Mall and said they had become lost in the skyway, came outside and were looking for Crave. Strangely I said again "go one block west, one block north and then another block west." Everyone lost seemed to be lost from the same place.