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Often people do not like to admit that they didn't know their hometown and will  [MASK]  on telling you the way, even if they do not know it ; others who are  anxious  to prove that they know their hometown very well, will give you a long  list  of directions which you cannot possibly hope to remember, and still others do not seem to be able to  tell  between their left and their right and you find in the end that you are going in the  opposite  direction.