What on earth possessed me, at that meeting point, to volunteer to wait at the car park, in order to direct late-comers?
What? Anyone who reads this diary knows that you can stick me in a wood and within ten seconds I am hopelessly lost. I do not know what happens to me, apart from I discover I have no sense of direction and never had any. Suggesting that I might actually be able to lead someone else to a meet-point in a wood is asking for trouble.
It was, it did, and I got it.
But wait! In my defence, listen to these instructions. At the time I heard them, they seemed perfectly reasonable. BUT YOU TRY FOLLOWING THEM.
Grit to leader (happily, obviously demented): Shark, Squirrel and Tiger will come along with you! I will wait here and bring the late arrivals! (Clearly defective in the brain.)
Leader to Grit: Great! Go along the path, through the gate, up the hill, and there's the tree.
Grit to leader: Fine! See you later! (Someone should knock some sense into her.)
TWO HOURS PASS
Grit (to party blindly following her in circles through a wood, except for the wing who saw what was coming and legged it back to the safety of the cafe): I think the tree we're meeting at is in that direction! Wait! What time is it? Oh! Is the party over? Hey, everyone, the party's over! (Long pause.) Does anyone remember the way back to the car park? (Lucky to be alive, quite frankly.)
2 comments:
That would maybe just about happen to me because I always get my directions mixed up and mistake right for left and the other way around. North is south and east is west. Up is not quite down because of gravity. Why do these foolish people think we are competent? Is that the solid impression we make?
irene, this is just my problem! from the outside, i look like a woman who knows what she is about. on the inside, it is all mush and chaos.
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