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Getting Lost
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When was the last time you got totally and utterly lost?
The other night me and my friends went to see my mates band play in Manchester. We couldn't find anywhere to park near the venue so we parked my car on a random side street and then walked to the place where they were playing, i didn't know where it was but one of my friends did.
After the gig two of my friends went out to a club so that left me and one friend to go back and find my car...but could we find it?! NO. All the streets look the same!
After panicking for a bit we decided we'd walk back to the venue where my friends band had played, wait for them to pack up their stuff and then get them to help find my car...but then we'd walked so far trying to find my car, that we couldn't find our way back to the venue either! doubly lost!! :crazyeyes
haha! in the end we wandered around for half an hour, enlisted the help of some crazy drunken guy so help us find the venue, who then ended up taking us in the totally wrong direction, and finally stumbled across my car completely randomly. i've never been so glad to see it in my entire life.
So. Yes we are both very blonde but it can happen to anyone right? Anybody got lost recently?
The other night me and my friends went to see my mates band play in Manchester. We couldn't find anywhere to park near the venue so we parked my car on a random side street and then walked to the place where they were playing, i didn't know where it was but one of my friends did.
After the gig two of my friends went out to a club so that left me and one friend to go back and find my car...but could we find it?! NO. All the streets look the same!
After panicking for a bit we decided we'd walk back to the venue where my friends band had played, wait for them to pack up their stuff and then get them to help find my car...but then we'd walked so far trying to find my car, that we couldn't find our way back to the venue either! doubly lost!! :crazyeyes
haha! in the end we wandered around for half an hour, enlisted the help of some crazy drunken guy so help us find the venue, who then ended up taking us in the totally wrong direction, and finally stumbled across my car completely randomly. i've never been so glad to see it in my entire life.
So. Yes we are both very blonde but it can happen to anyone right? Anybody got lost recently?
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Your as bad as my sister - she;s bloned and female too.
I misheard 'get a wimbledon bound tube train to Putney Bridge' as 'get a tube train to Wimbledon'
Got off at Wimbledon and kind of panicked. I phoned my friend and told him what happened and he just told me to get a cab back to the tube station and get the tube back to Putney.
By the sounds of things, he'd decided to tell everyone because when I finally made it to his house (just after 2pm instead of just after 1pm) everyone started cheering, he put his arms around me and made me go bright red.:o
Oh be quiet you pisshead...
If I wanted to hear form an arsehole I';d fart.
i know thats not you were getting at, but hey. got lost in the lake district once, that was brilliant though.
I was wasted and everybody else fucked off home and left me, so I started staggering about. I ended up completely lost and down the red light district and there was a bit of a misunderstanding with a lady of the night. When I realised what was going on (at a cash machine ready to get money out) I scarpered and she shouted on her pimp to come and do me in. I legged it like I've never legged it before, and made it home in one piece :thumb:
Still got a hell of a tan though
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Last time i got lost in a place i don't know was everywhere we went on our honeymoon. And they say men have a good sense of direction...he was bloody worse than me!
Got lost in San Antonio in Ibiza as well one time but I was with my mates. Was about 3 or 4 am and we'd just been on the town, first night there. Couldn't find our apartment at all and then it started pouring, like total storm. Was sweet though, the rain was really warm and lashing down. So we just danced in the rain, lost in the middle of San Antonio. Didn't get back to the apartments for ages.
Now that sounds a right laugh. I could imagine myself doing the same and remembering that momment for the rest of my life.
Didn't have a clue how to get back out onto the main road! Spent about an hour walking around, it got bad when one of the bloke started to panic (not good on shrooms!)
Eventually we found our way back though
That was a very bizarre night.
I had been to a concert, on top of a hill here (it has a big outdoors stage). Getting back down, I followed the few pedestrians. Then they went too few (most of them got in their cars) and I wasn't sure where to go.
I remembered the general direction that the city centre is, so I started walking there. Streets empty, no cars and no pedestrians. At some point I came across someone I knew from uni, but I was so surprised to see her in the middle of nowhere and in the middle of the night that I forgot to ask for directions.
Eventually I saw a cab approaching. I thought, "To heck with the train" and stopped it to go home. It turned in the next crossing, and then I saw it was a place I knew well -and quite far from the centre, where I was headed.
London is the only place in the UK I've ever genuinely needed Sat-Nav. The place is just so damned big, and as you point out, full of 'no right turns' and also one way systems that a single wrong turn/missed turn can take you 30 minutes to correct in traffic.
But otherwise, no, I don't get lost. I can never understand how people can have no sense of direction... My mum is a nightmare, whereas me and my dad, once we've driven somewhere once, we've got it stored for life.
Just take 3 lefts and start again :thumb:
Unless they decide you can't turn left, either! Sometimes a loop-de-loop is needed, with a 180 flip in mid-air
Before that, me and my friends got quite cheerfully lost on the way back from Alton Towers. Ended up in Derby (i.e no where near home). That was a 30 min journey that took us 4 hours... luckily, we were having a laugh but if we'd of been heading somewhere for a certain time, or not so cheerful it'd of probably been really worrying (since it was pitch black and pelting down with rain)
went to a street market with my family - which happened to be indoors (well, underneath loads of canopy things)
we were all traipsing through single file looking at all the stalls, when i saw something i liked and stopped to look at it. i TOLD my mum i was doing this because i tapped her and told her what i was doing.
however 10 seconds later i turned round to find they had aall gone. i got reeally panicky because the aisles were really narrow and the market was mahusive!
i attempted to go look for them and eventually (as in like 10 minutes later
Because they were going to come back here to sunny old England without noticing?
just meant that if i hadntve found them then i wouldnt have been able to get back to the hotel and stuff like that
I don't mind getting lost as it's usually a good laugh, we eventually get to where we want to be, even if having a bus driver tell us to get the wrong bus on the wrong side of the road takes us out of town then back into town !
Today's fiasco wouldnt have happened if A) I had actually any clue where i was going/route to take and
It's a bit of a joke with me and my mate that we always get lost on the buses, or just lost in general but usually it's a good laugh, not today though.