Lesson 22) U-Turns

This is yesterday's lesson since this happened last night :)

Last night, Sara wasn't feeling very good, and I was feeling pretty lazy, so we decided not to join our friends in partying. Instead Sara offered to DD (Designate Driver) in Daphne's car for Daphne, our friend Carrie, and our friend Mason. I didn't have anything else to do, so I decided to ride passenger with her.

On the way to drop them off, we had Daphne with us to give directions. It turns out, though, that knowing the route the bus takes and taking the route in the dark driving ourselves is very different! We turned around about three times before we got Daphne and Carrie where they were going.
Getting home was another adventure, because we had only arrived by luck so trying to do the whole thing backwards was once again... a little challenging. At least we had good music with us!
Around eleven, Mason called and asked us to come get him and take us to where Carrie was so that he could join them before they went to the next party. The catch? He didn't know exactly where he was, and he defiantly wasn't sure how to get there. Between getting him, taking him to Carrie, and then getting all three of them home, that SUV probably made more turn-arounds last night than ever before in its life (do you know how many places it's illegal to make a U-turn? Too many).

Like I said, at least we had good music! We were both also in a good mood, because all we could really do was laugh about the fact that we couldn't drive in a town we've now lived in for about seven months. Now- we can WALK anywhere in this place, but having to follow roads changes things up! You can't exactly hop a fence here or walk behind a restaurant there when in a vehicle.

I thought it was pretty symbolic though. We were college kids who thought we knew where we were going so we didn't take a map, then continuously got lost and had to turn around until we found the right road. I mean- could it get any deeper?? But we were perfectly willing to take those turns! We knew we'd find the right way eventually, so we just kept jammin' and jazzin' until we could: "THERE! I see the Food Lion- take this right!"

Mostly- know where you're going before you leave the dorm. But if you don't, just relax- you'll get there eventually (and that's for the party, and you know... life as we know it)!
Ironically, "Life is a Highway" by the Rascal Flatts just came on my Pandora Radio...

Curl Girl, out!