You Can’t Get There From Here!
I was working the counter last Thursday when three travellers came in looking a little lost. The threesome was composed of two young South African men and a young white woman with what I think was a New Jersey accent. One of the gentlemen and the young lady came up to the counter, and asked if I could help them with directions.
“I’ll do what I can,” I answered, “what can I help you find?”
“Can you tell us how to get to here?” she asked, point at a line on her Mapquest printout that said Merge left onto I-84 Westbound.
“I’m sorry,” I told them, “You can’t get there from here.” I pointed at the first line on their printout, that referred to an intersection in Kansas (we were in Western Wyoming) and said,”See here where it says ‘turn left’? Mapquest was wrong, you should have turned right, then you’d be heading the right way.”
The young lady immediately turned around and punched the man she was with in the arm and yelled, “You son of a bitch! I told you we were going the wrong way! Now we have to go all the way back!”
“No, no, I was kidding,” I quickly interjected, trying to control my laughter, “You’re going the right way. The turnoff is another 130 miles or so West of here.”
“That way?” she asked pointing confused toward the East.
“No, that way,” I told her pointing toward the West.
“Yeah you dummy,” her friend said in his heavy South African accent. “W – E – S – T, West! Do you understand? West!”
They were still fighting when the three of them got in their car and headed out of the parking lot in the wrong direction.
These are the moments when it is all worth while 
Wisdom
