Directed our family back and forth across the US four times when I was a pre-teen...used paper maps, never got lost once. Maps still work, people.
Drove long haul 17 years.
Used maps every day.
The two or three times I got lost was by either missing a turn or missing road signs. My fault every time.
I remember the loop around Indianapolis being under construction, some poor idiot called out on the c.b.that he couldn’t find his exit and he had already been around the loop THREE TIMES!
He was relying on GPS. His exit had been moved slightly, less than 1/4 mile, and he kept driving by the new exit.
A driver finally had pity on him and pulled into the breakdown lane and waited for him to go around the loop again and took him to his exit.
I bet you were a real family hero. I saw another scene in a parking lot that involved a little kid just beyond the toddler stage that was just as good. Mommy and the kids came out of a store to get back in the station wagon and mommy discovered she’d locked her keys in the car. However, she’d left the back window open far enough that she could pick up the little kid, slide him into the vehicle, and have him open the doors, which he did. Family hero for the day!