Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Let me tell you about my mad skillz

When it comes to sense of direction, I've got a pretty damn good one. You could put me in a maze the size of Manhattan with blindfolds on and I'd meet you at the exit half an hour later all "sup dudes, wanna snag a burg'?"


However this amazing superpower of mine (seriously, it's that good) failed me today when I went out to the camera store to buy a tripod. Instead of going with the path I knew pretty well, I decided to go a different direction so that I could take pictures of some new stuff. It seemed like a pretty good idea at first; I was just crossing a different bridge than I usually do, and going this way would just take me to my bus route which I could follow to the store. It would have stayed a good idea if I had just followed my original plan, but I decided to create my own shortcut to see if I could get there quicker. WHAT A RAD PLAN, RIGHT? Yeah it was rad. All my plans are rad. Especially Master Plans.


But unfortunately I must have run out of rad points or used up my special meter or something because after probably half an hour, I was walking down a road I was sure I had never seen, and seeing signs for Nagasaki, which is a good half-hour away by car. I knew it was stupid to think that I was in Nagasaki at the time, but I was all "oh dang oh dang what if I'm in Nagasaki. Man I ain't even got a cell to call my host fam." It was even dumber to think this seeing as signs for Nagasaki are fucking everywhere in my town; tons are near my school, and even more on my bus route.


After another hour and a half of walking over train tracks, over bridges, under bridges and through parking lots, I finally made it to my destination. And of course once I get in, the tripod I was thinking of getting wouldn't work for my camera, and I didn't want to buy any others without looking around online. So pretty much I walked around for two hours until it was too dark to take photos, didn't get anything from the store I was walking to.


I went back home the way I knew how, and it ended up taking about a half-hour or so. Pretty much I completely failed today at doing anything. While walking back, I thought "at least there ain't anybody around to chastise me for being out late on my own" (plus my school's got a rule about being out past 8; you can't be out past 8) and then a second later "Oh, hey Mr. Tysen" -Oh, hey Jeremy (checks watch). What are you doing out so late?- SWEET JUST WHAT I WANTED. Mr. Tysen is the only American at the school other than me. He's an English teacher who also acts as a translator for me at times. Perfect dude to meet out on the street!





YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS

Goatse

3 comments:

minimill said...

yeah, ive got a really good sense of direction as well, but every now and again i'm like "bro, ive got it down" and it fucks me.

some rad pics you snagged though.

Ben Kuyper said...

Ouch, getting lost feels so much worse when you are confident you know where you are going. Sorry to hear that.

ALSO, YOU CAN'T BE OUT PAST 8:00? What are you supposed to do? Like...all that time you can't be out.

phintleroy said...

I was out running a couple weeks ago and ended up getting lost in Allston (kind of sketch over there). Trying to find my way back I slipped on a banana peel. I wasn't even mad, it was awesome, I'm so glad that can actually happen