#25 Lost

I am known in my friend group as the one that gets lost. I can never follow directions even if it was google maps yelling at me to take a right turn. I have an assuming problem as well;which makes following directions worse, because I’ll be following them, and then just assume that I am right. Take a wrong turn and then end up 10 minutes farther away from my destination. Yes I get lost a lot. It stresses me out everytime, especially if I have to be on time for something. That ties into me always leaving early because unless I have been to the spot I am headed over three times then I will get lost. My dad I swear, has a map embedded in his brain. He can think of streets from inner Kansas City, Shawnee, Overland Park, Lee’s Summit, and even out in Blue Springs. And make a map in his head of how to get there. Since I didn’t get that great nativagation gene. I get lost, and when I get lost, I lose my ability to drive as accurately as possible. Well now that the background of my horrible awareness skills are placed. Let me tell you about a time that I got really stressed out driving. I only recently moved to Kansas, before I lived in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. I grew up over there and did all that usually teenage things, like late night drives for no reason. Which allowed me to actually be fairly familiar with how Lee’s Summit  is set up. But when I first moved out here. It is a completely different universe. The lanes are bigger and more people don’t know how to drive, myself is kinda included in this. But anyways I was headed to Sally’s Beauty Supply that is off of Metcalf. I was with my best friend, and she isn’t from Kansas either, so both of us were blind driving. Might as well have been alone because neither one of us knew where we were. We were headed there because I needed to redye my hair. Fun fact; I’m naturally a blonde. Anyway we get off the highway at the wrong exit, so immediately off to a bad start. When you are lost and alone, you just feel the stress on yourself, but when you are with a friend. It even more stress because usually they are freaking out too. Finally get on the correct road, and then turn into where Sally’s should be, and I drive right past it. I had told my dad and stepmom that we were just going to buy hair dye, and we had already been gone for 30 minutes. Anyways I flip back around and finally we are at Sally’s. We go in, get the hair dye, and leave. Finally we headed back to my house, and surprisingly we don’t get lost. I told my dad and stepmom that we got lost and they just laughed and were happy we found our way back.