Well, little/tall Kenny had his first experience of panic behind the wheel. I'd ordered new contacts for Meagan and him and they'd come in. I'd tried to pick them up over the weekend only to find out after I'd driven to the store that they weren't open on Sundays! So I asked l/t Kenny if he thought he could handle driving to get them. There are four turns within three miles of the house and then it's a straight shot to Lencrafters. 8 miles in total. He said he could do it so I wrote out the instructions and drew him a little map and off he went.
He managed to get there with no trouble. But, bless his little heart, the old male logic thing obviously didn't hit him too hard in the head because it somehow didn't occur to him that if he just followed the directions in reverse, that he'd get home. He drove the wrong way out of the parking lot and managed to drive about 10 miles before he figured out that he wasn't seeing anything familiar. So he turns around and gets the first turn back okay but at the next turn...he turns the wrong way again!
Since I was in someone else's car on my way to a Premier training, he called big Kenny and over the course of 30 minutes (remember, our Lenscrafters is a total of 8 miles away!!!), got talked through the whole getting home thing. Big Kenny said that when he got to the house he ended up crying because besides the whole getting lost thing, he had no money and was worried about running out of gas and getting stuck in the middle of nowhere!
Sometimes, there are no words.
2 comments:
Oh poor thing. That has got to be hard on the ego. I suppose it wouldn't be much help at this point to tell him that it still happens to people who've been driving for years...and people with GPS too!
Thank goodness for cell phones though - 'back in the day' we'd be digging in the backseat looking for a quarter and fretting over finding a payphone that wasn't too scary.
My poor baby... As Lori says - it happens to the best of us. Perhaps a $10 bill tucked in his wallet for "funny" money would help him not worry about running out of gas.
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