Hah. My father has similar stories from his time as a paramedic. There were some transitions from one page to another that were considered unusually difficult, and during training they would find a way to force the rookie map-book reader to handle these transitions. Bonus points if they could handle the situation when the route continually straddled a page boundary!
They also, of course, knew which streets had been re-marked as one way and such since the map book was published, so they got the rookie into tricky positions where the world conflicted with the map, forcing them to spend only part of the time with their nose in the book.
They also, of course, knew which streets had been re-marked as one way and such since the map book was published, so they got the rookie into tricky positions where the world conflicted with the map, forcing them to spend only part of the time with their nose in the book.