I'm not in New Jersey!

[EvilEmpryss]

I stopped at an open convenience store and purchased a state road map. I folded it to general area of where I knew I had to be and asked the clerk if he could pinpoint the location a bit more closely. He could not. He either had no clue how to read a map, or he really did not know where he was.

I refuse to believe it. Don't you know that all gas station and convenience store clerks are rigorously tested on their knowledge of the local area to ensure that they can assist lost travelers? There is no way that one of them could have failed to help you locate your position on a map. That guy must have been temp. [ /satire ]

[Argabarga]

Wonder what kind of excuse he'd have to cook up to explain why the roads/parking lots were full of cars with NJ tags? Tourists? Migration Season?

Way to fail at situational awareness

[bhskittykatt]

I did once have a couple wander into my drugstore who went south from Newark Airport instead of north. Finally got off the Parkway at around milepost 89 and looked for an open store. They were rather shocked when I told them they'd come about 90 miles south of where their ultimate destination was (somewhere in Rockland County, several miles past the north end of the highway at milepost 172.4...) So I guess you can drive for hours in the wrong direction, but it happens very rarely, or so I'd hope.)

That reminds me of a few years back when a woman shut down the border. She was delivering a training grenade to her son, who was in the armed forces. He was in Vancouver, WA, in the southern part of the state. She tried to drive to Vancouver, BC, which is just north of us. She said she was just following the interstate signs that said Vancouver. Needless to say, when she arrived at the border with a rather realistic-looking training grenade, it made quite a mess.

[ShootMePlease]

Hey Grape, do you work at Hinkle's ? Just wondering. Lol.

[JustaCashier]

That's definitely a Whiskey Tango, with a shitload of Foxtrot thrown in!


Mike

[wagegoth]

Now, he only said he *went* to Yale, not that he graduated there. Or spent more than an hour there.

Obviously a legacy.

[Argabarga]

Now, he only said he *went* to Yale, not that he graduated there. Or spent more than an hour there.

Aw heck, by that logic, then I've been to Harvard, Penn State, Michigan State, Eastern Michigan, Ohio State.... geeze, I've been a busy guy!

[tropicsgoddess]

The sheer stupidity of some people never ceases to amaze me.

[Andara Bledin]

So I guess you can drive for hours in the wrong direction, but it happens very rarely, or so I'd hope.)

I had a friend pull this stunt.

The kicker? We both had CBs in the car (back in '94) and he'd turned his off for the 4 hours or so they drove the wrong way because they missed the exchange where the 5 splits from the 99 heading into Bakersfield.

Even better? I'd tried to warn them about the split when I hit it (I was ahead of them by about five minutes - we didn't need to stay in sight, we had CBs, right?) because I knew he'd go the wrong way.

We were headed to San Jose. They were in Stockton before they figured it out.

^-.-^

[FerroMancer]

"Garden State, sir. GARDEN STATE."

[Mr.Customer]

Several years ago I was coming home late at night from visiting friends in another town, a few hundred miles away. I knew what road I was on, and I knew what road I needed to turn off onto, but i did NOT know far far I had yet to go, or if I had missed the turn. I stopped at an open convenience store and purchased a state road map. I folded it to general area of where I knew I had to be and asked the clerk if he could pinpoint the location a bit more closely. He could not. He either had no clue how to read a map, or he really did not know where he was. What was worse, nobody else in the store could tell me, either!

I finally decided to just keep going, and if I found another certain highway, that I would just turn right, go to Austin, and find my way home from there.

The issue with rural areas in some cases is that the worker has to drive a considerable distance to get t work and thus doesn't really know the area well, other then pointing out the window and saying "that there is the highway"

it sucks but it is true, I used to get asked for directions all the time and all I could ever definitively say was, that highway there goes north or south.....

[Mongo Skruddgemire]

Having live in New Jersey recently (GSP Exit 74), I have to ask this one little question.

Didn't the bright yellow licence plates that said "New Jersey" on the vast majority of the cars he was encountering on the roads...give him at least the slightest clue as to where the @#$% he was?

Wait, you posted this here so it is in actuality more proof as to what a @#$%-tard he was.

[skeptic53]

So I guess you can drive for hours in the wrong direction, but it happens very rarely, or so I'd hope.)

I had an uncle who was driving from San Pedro (next to Long Beach) to Santa Barbara with his family. They stopped for lunch at a state beach park, then drove for an hour the wrong way before noticing the Pacific Ocean was on the right instead of the left.

[FerroMancer]

Having live in New Jersey recently (GSP Exit 74),

*wave* Exit 138

[Shalom]

*wave* Exit 138

*waves back* 153A here, but I used to live near your present location, just off Starin and Kenmore.