Lately it seems that no matter how early I leave to get to a new place, I'm always barely on time or even late. My sense of direction is so poor that I eat up my extra time. Granted, today I had only 10-15min extra, but still.... I managed to get to the hospital 15 min early, but silly me, I put the hospital address into my GPS but not the cross-streets of the parking lot, so in my natural blunderings, I completely turned the wrong way and went over a mile in the wrong direction, confused as ever that I wasn't passing the right streets. I thought I was going in the wrong direction and made a U-turn, but for some reason I thought maybe I just didn't go far enough, and U-turned again and went even more the wrong way! Once I realized my mistake and parked, I was already supposed to be in the hospital. And once I got there, I was in the wrong building. So I showed up almost 10min late, sweaty and out of breath. And I almost lost my shoe along the way, since I was wearing flats.
I don't know why this has unfortunately become the norm. It seems some people just have a natural sense of direction. Clearly this was not one of the gifts bestowed upon me, and it makes me happy that GPS and cell phones have been invented. Now if only I could think to use them properly....but lesson learned, I'll make sure I Google Map the exact location I need to go first, and not my eventual building destination.
My dad used to joke that all you had to do was go in the opposite direction of where my mom and I would start walking to get to where you needed to go, and I hate to admit it, but more often than not, that would be an accurate way to figure out which way to go. So lesson learned...tomorrow when I'm going to a new hospital (again! argh) I shall make sure I've got at least a half hour extra time to get lost. Assuming I can get out of bed :)
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