GPS what?

I generally think my sense of direction is good. Usually if I go someplace once I can find it again.

However, there are those times....

The other day I was on my way to see a new client. I typed her address into my GPS and didn't seem like it would too hard to find. I mean Valdosta isn't that big...you can literally go from one side to the other in less than 10 minutes and a trip through downtown never takes longer than 2 minutes...and that's if you hit all the red lights.

Now, I'm coming from the other side of Valdosta (you know the wrong side of the tracks side). Valdosta literally has a bridge and train tracks to seperate the right side from the wrong side...and it gets a little tricky through there. I totally miss the turn because I had the GPS on mute. Turn the volume on and now it's telling me to turn left, but of course I'm in the right lane so I just turn right and then it tells me to backtrack about 1.5 miles. I hit Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd and thought "hmmmmm." I turn on MLK and then turn right on another road.

So, after having to go around the block to find the street I need because of course it doesn't connect to the street I'm on even though the GPS says it does I am now on Lake Park Rd. and I'm supposed to be on Old Lake Park Rd. I immediately turn in the wrong direction and have to turn around. Looking for the house number and completely don't see it. End up totally...I don't even know. Call my client and she's trying to give me directions over the phone and she says to turn right at the stop sign and I'm not even on a road with a stop sign.

I finally park and wait for her to come find me and wonder what the hell good is my GPS when it can never get me to my destination!!!

This car pulls up with this girl inside and she doesn't say anything and I say "Are you so and so?" and she nods. As I am following her into the neighborhood where I had to call the police on that guy with a gun I'm thinking "Hmm, this girl could be anyone and I am just blindly following her wherever she wants to take me."

We get to a house which I totally PASSED WHEN I DROVE DOWN HER STREET EARLIER and go inside and are together about 15 minutes when she has a family emergency and we have to reschedule to Saturday. I usually don't work on Saturday, but I really wanted to get a few extra hours in plus I don't have anything better to do.

But the whole situation reminded me of another time when I got lost in OH. I used to be a Brownie Troop leader with my friend Danielle and when I say we were the worst troop leaders ever believe me. One night I'm on my way home from Brownies (and the school where we had Brownies was not even 2 miles away from my house) and I somehow took a wrong turn. Except I didn't realize it. Thinking I'm still on the right road, imagine my surprise to come up to a stop sign...which I blew through because I wasn't expecting it and almost got sandwhiched from cars coming from both directions. After that I begin to realize something is not quite right and I call my then husband, but I don't know where the hell I am so I can't even help him tell me how to get home. Eventually through just driving around aimlessly I find a street I recognize and get home. I was only lost within 1/2 mile from my house!

Maybe my directional skills aren't as good as I initially thought they were....lol

PS I am watching my cat carry my dog's leopard print sweater around the house in his mouth and now he's attacking it. I wonder if he thinks it's an actual leopard? This cat thinks he's a dog...thanks Leah!