If you were lost out in a big forest and you came to a fork, a path leading right or left....?

Question

How would you decide which way to go?.. would you toss a coin,, use your intuition, or just hope for the best?..

Answer 1

As Yogi Berra once said "if you see a fork in the road, take it".

Answer 2

Intuition. And if i meet the fork, i'd choose right. No offense. Somehow i believe its right coz i use my right hands in almost doing everything. And the fact that we choose to live right. Okay, maybe coz right word is more popular then left. LOL! Haha

Answer 3

I would use something to mark my trail and then check out each direction for a few minutes before selecting one . I'd look for fresh prints on the ground..like tire tracks ; footprints or animal prints. If I found wild animal tracks I'd head the other direction.

Answer 4

Assuming that both roads looked exactly alike.... and the sun was directly overhead or not plainly visible I would choose based on intuition, then toss a coin.  If the two were the same I would go in that direction.  If the two were opposed then I would decide based on the way the wind was blowing, literally.

If it was blowing left I would go left, and right would mean right.  If the wind was blowing at my back or front, then I guess I would try to find a squirrel and throw it at the fork in the road.  Then I would follow which way it went.  If I couldn't find a squirrel, or it landed dead center and did not choose a general direction but rather lunged straight back at me, I would (after a brief squirrel lunch) spit at the ground aiming for the center.  Whichever way it landed (right of center or left) would be where I went.

If all of these things didn't work, and still showed no preference for direction.... then I would probably have to just build a hut and live right their near the fork.  I would start a new life, and go by the name "woodsman".  I would wear a flowing robe of leaves and pelts, and eat vermin I caught.  Until someone happened down the road and I would scream at them "LEFT OR RIGHT d**n YOU?  PICK ONE OR DIE!!"  Then whichever one they picked I would go.

Unless they were a couple and each chose a different direction at the exact moment.  Then (after a brief human lunch).....

Answer 5

Well if the sun is out, I can recall the direction from which I came and the direction in which I am headed.  You can have a heightened sense of direction if you follow and know the patterns of the sun.

Answer 6

I'd choose the one that was grassy and wanted wear, though as for that the passing there will probably have worn them about the same.

Both roads will probably equally lay in leaves no step will have trodden black. I'd try to keep the first for another day, yet knowing how way leads on to way, I'd doubt if I should ever come back.

I'd fear that I might tell of it with a sigh, somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood, and I--

I'd take the one less traveled by, and hope that it will make all the difference.

Answer 7

It does not matter whether i decide to take the left or the right path. It does not make any difference when i am making the decision. It all goes to fate, I guess.

Answer 8

toss a coin, and if I didn't like the result, I'd just make a decision.