See, if I could have just got my bearings.

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I'm sure we've all seen the Geico TV ad where Tarzan and Jane are lost looking for the waterfall. I'm a guy, so as much as I hate to admit it, I side with Tarzan. We're not lost, just let us get our bearings. BUT, I don't know if was done intentionally or what. Jane asks a chimp for directions. A Chimp. She asks a chimp! Even if he knew, how is he going to tell her. It brings back memories of my ex, Pat, asking a non English speaking woman for directions. That went over well. Or her asking the 16 year old gas station kid for directions to the purse discount store 45 miles away. Sure, of course he's going to know the place. He buys his purses there all the time. Yeah, I maybe stubborn about we're we are, but you have to admit women always ask the person least likely to know the directions. It's in their genes. I can remember the smug look on Pat's face when she got in the car with her "directions". She got directions from the one eyed guy drinking out of a paper bag. So he must know the way. And I remember following those directions to the dirt road 20 miles from nowhere. "Well, he said he knew".
See, if I could have just got my bearings.
 

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When the hubby and I travel we use a GPS. From the minute it gets turned on he argues with it and insists on going a different way. I ask him if he wants me to turn it off but he refuses. Says he wants to hear what she has to say. Then we get lost and he blames the GPS. Makes for a great trip,never a dull moment.
 

My husband would drive around, totally lost, forever, on one of his "shortcuts." Once, one of those shortcuts led to us winding up up to the floorboards in a mud bog and we had to get pulled out. Did he stop taking shortcuts? Of course not! Geez.
 
I once actually said to a Dutch policeman who enquired, at 2.00am on a lonely country road near a border crossing, if I was lost "I'm not lost, I'm just not where I expected to be."!

He seemed to find that quire acceptable!

(The Dutch are a very laid back nation!)
 
I always expect the driver to know more than me. I have no sense of direction whatsoever in the city. I love my GPS :)
 

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