Alive and at Home Depot!
These stores are huge!
How do I get out??????
Keep walking in the same direction. Eventually you will hit a wall. Follow the wall to a door. If you're lucky, it will be the exit door, otherwise enjoy the restroom and keep following the wall until it leads to the outside door. Good Luck! This message will self destruct in 5 seconds. 4.....3.....2.......1....
I think I'm in trouble.
I walked and walked and walked and came to a window.
Your instructions said nothing about a window, so after hesitating for a few hours, I turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
I finally hit a wall.
It hurt.
I didn't know which way to turn...
Left?
Right?
I flipped a coin.
I dropped it.
It rolled under a shelf.
I couldn't reach it.
I had to find something long to fish it out.
I tried to think what I could use.
I was in luck.
I was in Home Depot.
I found a length of pipe.
Actually, I found several... in varying lengths.
But I just took one.
I fished out the coin.
It was Tails.
I don't remember which direction I was supposed to go for tails.
I tossed the coin again.
An employee asked me if I was going to buy that pipe.
I said, "No."
He took the pipe away.
I didn't remember which way the coin had fallen.
I realized it didn't matter since I didn't remember which side of the coin was Right or Left.
I tossed the coin again.
Heads.
Heads was 'Right'.
But I'd turned around too much.
Was 'Right' this way? Or that way?
I decided to put my back to the wall and turn right.
I took two steps and hit another wall.
It hurt.
Again.
I was in the corner.
I decided that 'Left' probably would've been the better choice.
I turned around and followed the wall.
Eventually I came to a door.
I went through it.
And this is why I think I'm in trouble.
Exit door? No problem.
Restroom door? Keep going.
'Employees only past this point' door?
Apparently, management frowns on customers using that door.
I might be here a while longer.
Although one guy did promise me that security would show me to the door eventually.
So maybe it's not too bad?
I think I'm in trouble.
I walked and walked and walked and came to a window.
Your instructions said nothing about a window, so after hesitating for a few hours, I turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
I finally hit a wall.
It hurt.
I didn't know which way to turn...
Left?
Right?
I flipped a coin.
I dropped it.
It rolled under a shelf.
I couldn't reach it.
I had to find something long to fish it out.
I tried to think what I could use.
I was in luck.
I was in Home Depot.
I found a length of pipe.
Actually, I found several... in varying lengths.
But I just took one.
I fished out the coin.
It was Tails.
I don't remember which direction I was supposed to go for tails.
I tossed the coin again.
An employee asked me if I was going to buy that pipe.
I said, "No."
He took the pipe away.
I didn't remember which way the coin had fallen.
I realized it didn't matter since I didn't remember which side of the coin was Right or Left.
I tossed the coin again.
Heads.
Heads was 'Right'.
But I'd turned around too much.
Was 'Right' this way? Or that way?
I decided to put my back to the wall and turn right.
I took two steps and hit another wall.
It hurt.
Again.
I was in the corner.
I decided that 'Left' probably would've been the better choice.
I turned around and followed the wall.
Eventually I came to a door.
I went through it.
And this is why I think I'm in trouble.
Exit door? No problem.
Restroom door? Keep going.
'Employees only past this point' door?
Apparently, management frowns on customers using that door.
I might be here a while longer.
Although one guy did promise me that security would show me to the door eventually.
So maybe it's not too bad?
Big news!
.
Medication.
Total synchronicity. (took me a good two minutes to spell it properly!)
Venice! Boy do I need it.
Sorry, you'll have to ask Nebo. He's got the good stuff.
I've got some Tylenol if that'll help.
Sycophant?
I didn't think so... but maybe you're right.
I got a good chunk of the chapter done last night, but it'll be a bit still before it's done.
But to appease the sycophants' need for synchronicity, here's a synopsis.
We leave Germany.
We get to Venice.
We see water.
Done!
Now you can skip reading all the fluff in the middle.
No, that will not suffice with what ails me.
Would you like to be one? Come on, tell me. I'm curious.
Or did you mean me?
I just can't wait to see the water - at your feet - or your ankles. I'm so sorry for being such a intense groupie, but I really can't wait.
Hey, does that make ME a sycophant , but that would make you some kind of bigwig.
EDIT: OH NO I just caught your words above IT IS ME. OH no.
I miss driving on the Autobahn! My little Chevy Cavalier kicked some booty....not really.
The Germans do take their driving rules seriously. When I first arrived in country, we had a class on how to drive on the autobahn. I wish it was mandatory in every other county including the US!
Crazy about the 2 1/2 hour "lunch." The Germans tend to be a bit more prompt.
Ah Venice. What a fantastic city! I love it and want to go back some of these days.
If you aren't a professional writer, you should be.
Your trip report is by leaps and bounds the best one I have ever had the pleasure of reading.
Thanks!
I'm enjoying the trip report, but my family wishes I would stop. I keep sharing the pics with them, whether they like it or not.
Europe looks very cool.
I wanted to visit before this report, but now I really want to go. I don't want to drive on the autobahn, but maybe I could take you and let you drive me....
Last thing I remember, I was
Driving, my foot on the floor
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
"Sich entspannen, " said the German,
"Wir sind so programmiert, erhalten.
Sie können jederzeit die Sie mögen,
Aber es wird 3 euro kosten lassen! "
"Huh?" <massive guitar solo>
Yep. What you said!
Heights? Or confined spaces?
If it's confined spaces, he can always walk up.
(Might be a while, though)
confined spaces. Probably a really long walk - do they have a hotel on the way up?
True. If you turn the fan on the car all the way to full, it's so cold that you quickly suck all the heat out of the engine, unless the RPMs are high enough (i.e. not idling).
It's a dance between keeping the revs up and the fan low.
Brrr I remember those days. Had to go out and run the car at lunch, even though it was plugged in - in order to be able to start it at the end of the day.
21F? Suntan weather! Sweet!
You do not want to know how warm it is this weekend. Pretend I didn't tell you this.
I think I'm in trouble.
I walked and walked and walked and came to a window.
Your instructions said nothing about a window, so after hesitating for a few hours, I turned around and walked in the opposite direction.
I finally hit a wall.
It hurt.
I didn't know which way to turn...
Left?
Right?
I flipped a coin.
I dropped it.
It rolled under a shelf.
I couldn't reach it.
I had to find something long to fish it out.
I tried to think what I could use.
I was in luck.
I was in Home Depot.
I found a length of pipe.
Actually, I found several... in varying lengths.
But I just took one.
I fished out the coin.
It was Tails.
I don't remember which direction I was supposed to go for tails.
I tossed the coin again.
An employee asked me if I was going to buy that pipe.
I said, "No."
He took the pipe away.
I didn't remember which way the coin had fallen.
I realized it didn't matter since I didn't remember which side of the coin was Right or Left.
I tossed the coin again.
Heads.
Heads was 'Right'.
But I'd turned around too much.
Was 'Right' this way? Or that way?
I decided to put my back to the wall and turn right.
I took two steps and hit another wall.
It hurt.
Again.
I was in the corner.
I decided that 'Left' probably would've been the better choice.
I turned around and followed the wall.
Eventually I came to a door.
I went through it.
And this is why I think I'm in trouble.
Exit door? No problem.
Restroom door? Keep going.
'Employees only past this point' door?
Apparently, management frowns on customers using that door.
I might be here a while longer.
Although one guy did promise me that security would show me to the door eventually.
So maybe it's not too bad?