If you're looking to get somewhere, ask anyone, and they will happily (yet nonchalantly) point you in a specific direction. Some might even go through the trouble of writing an address on a sheet of paper. They will put in this effort, regardless of whether they know how to get you to your destination correctly.
On a recent trek to find the post office, I was the unknowing participant in what could even seem like an elaborately planned scavenger hunt. From one side of town to the other I went, at each location asking for directions. No two directions were the same, but none but the last actually contained the site of a post office.
In memory, I still have two pieces of paper with addresses on them in my pocket. One referred to a specific block, but to a house number and post office that did not exist. The other referred to a square, but there was little to accomplish at that location besides shop for shoes.
Maybe that was part of the scavenger hunt.