I’m diving from Cincy to NY and who knows if I’ll ever get there…or back! Yikes! What am I dong? I’m one of those people who walks around the block and gets totally lost and now I’m off to NY. Pray for me.

If I go out of a department store at another entrance than the one I came in I never find my car…the security guy and I now exchange Christmas cards…and I’ve quit shopping in Target as I always get lost in that place. As my husband used to say…When God was handing out the direction genes you were last in line.

I have little tricks to help me look not quite so inept. I finally put a flower on my car antenna so I can find it. The really bad part is if it’s snowed while inside and I come out and everything is white, even the flower! I once pushed a grocery cart around a parking lot for an hour looking for my car. Least I didn’t have to worry about food thawing or spoiling.

I think this condition is basically genetic. I have a wonderful daughter, Ann…the one I’m driving to NY to drop her stuff off to ’cause she’d never find cincy…and she’s as bad as me. My son’s not much better but my other two daughters seem to be pretty good at finding their way around. Got their daddy’s genes. 

I couldn’t even find my oldest daughter’s rehearsal dinner. Where the heck was that blasted restaurant? So, I called the place and the dear sweet lady who answered the phone stayed with me all the way till I got there. Now that’s customer service! Least I remembered to charge my cell phone…another of my little quirks. Duh, you gotta plug the little suckers in!

My brother was at the rehearsal dinner and felt so sorry for me that he went out and bought me one of those Garman thing. And it is terrific. I really mean it. If you are like me…and I really feel sorry for us…get a Garman or tomtom or another one of those GPS thingies.

We’ve named our Garman Audrey. Ann and I share Audrey. Mail her back and forth when we’re going places. And if we don’t do what she says she actually sounds pissed when she says “recalculating.” One of these days she’s going to say…What the hell do you thing you’re doing!

So, here I am, a lost soul and my question to you today is, are you a lost soul too? And what little tricks do you have for finding your way around. I need all the tips I can get. Do you have a story about getting lost? That would make me feel a little better in that I’m not the only one wandering around out there. I’ll give away three copies of I’m Your Santa from the answers.

Hugs
Dianne Castell
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