Rustward
Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
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Sometimes lack of basic skills can be scary, too. This is going to sound like I made it up but it is true.
Recent visitors arrived at the house using directions from Mapquest.
Enter town on U.S. Highway. Turn right on the "loop".
Go a couple of miles on the loop and turn right onto the interstate.
Go five miles on the interstate to a major state tollway (like an interstate).
Go five miles on the tollway and exit to two lane county road.
Go one mile on the county road, turn left, and we are the second house.
Pretty easy -- daytime, light traffic, good weather.
Now the plan was to leave here to go to their niece's house elsewhere in town, then go home from there.
Some event caused them to cancel the niece visit and just go home from here.
He was prepping the car as I saw her at the kitchen table shuffling a small stack of mapquest maps and directions while shaking her head from side to side.
I now suspect he knew what was happening and decided to remove himself from it because he is the cause of everything that has ever gone wrong. Once on a cross country road trip they had to stop to replace their six year old battery that failed because he turned on the radio.
I say "What seems to be the problem?"
"I need directions." Me: "?"
"Well, I have directions to here, and I have directions from here to my niece's house, and I have directions from my niece's house to home . . . but I don't have directions from here to home."
I innocently said "Just use the directions and map you used to get here. Why can't you do that?"
"Because all the turns are backwards, uh, and . . . Oh, it just won't work." Another headshake.
I should have taken this seriously but I thought she was joking. "You're kidding, right?"
"No, I'm not kidding".
Three minutes later I handed her the needed Mapquest directions and all was good with the world!
Recent visitors arrived at the house using directions from Mapquest.
Enter town on U.S. Highway. Turn right on the "loop".
Go a couple of miles on the loop and turn right onto the interstate.
Go five miles on the interstate to a major state tollway (like an interstate).
Go five miles on the tollway and exit to two lane county road.
Go one mile on the county road, turn left, and we are the second house.
Pretty easy -- daytime, light traffic, good weather.
Now the plan was to leave here to go to their niece's house elsewhere in town, then go home from there.
Some event caused them to cancel the niece visit and just go home from here.
He was prepping the car as I saw her at the kitchen table shuffling a small stack of mapquest maps and directions while shaking her head from side to side.
I now suspect he knew what was happening and decided to remove himself from it because he is the cause of everything that has ever gone wrong. Once on a cross country road trip they had to stop to replace their six year old battery that failed because he turned on the radio.
I say "What seems to be the problem?"
"I need directions." Me: "?"
"Well, I have directions to here, and I have directions from here to my niece's house, and I have directions from my niece's house to home . . . but I don't have directions from here to home."
I innocently said "Just use the directions and map you used to get here. Why can't you do that?"
"Because all the turns are backwards, uh, and . . . Oh, it just won't work." Another headshake.
I should have taken this seriously but I thought she was joking. "You're kidding, right?"
"No, I'm not kidding".
Three minutes later I handed her the needed Mapquest directions and all was good with the world!
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