Get Outta Here
Directions: It’s a known fact that real men don’t ask for ‘em. They’d just rather get lost.
Awhile back we had a work party in a restaurant about a half hour north of my office in an area I was really unfamiliar with. In typical dot your i’s and cross your t’s mode, I downloaded directions from the restaurant’s web site, took one of the printed sheets the receptionist had made up with another set of directions, AND Mapquested my destination.
Just to be safe (are you getting the idea I hate getting lost?) I also asked one of my male co-workers for his take on how best to get there. “Oh yeah,” he said. “You just go straight on that main road for awhile and then kind of make a left.” (Okay, that cleared that up. Not.)
Of course, I could have just used my car’s on-board navigational system – if I had known how to turn it on, that is. Because if real men don’t do directions, this real woman doesn’t do electronic gadgets. (She does beg her teenaged son to figure them out for her.)
PS: My colleague and I both made it to the restaurant. Of course, he was on his second martini by the time you-know-who arrived.
Comments
My husband got the GPS(mio) as a gift for me last year. Though to be very honest, he uses it more than i do!!!
But here is the important thing, i can see my marriage surviving because of this tiny device.
No more arguments, no more angry looks (at each other) in a new strange city or even in my own town!!
We have been to couple of cities in last few months and this GPS has been a blessing. Now i can listen to the CD's and actually look out the window and enjoy the ride instead of looking at the map/dirctions and wondering what to tell him next!!!
If it was up to me, I would make it a law that the day you get your marriage license, the state would also give u a GPS as a gift !!!! well, that's me :)
LOVE your idea, FLA-gal. I agree. You get the marriage license and then they hand you the GPS: a sure-fire way to bring the divorce rate down! Thanks for reading and writing. Cheers, Laurie
