Monday, June 13, 2005

Barbara and Abby's Excellent Adventure

So it was quite an interesting day yesterday when I asked my sister to drive me to Corey's house (Sheppard and something, Meadowvale?). The day already started off on the wrong foot when we decided to follow mapquest's directions to get there. It told us to go south on Warden, turn left onto Finch, then turn left onto Neilson, then turn right onto Finch. What ended up happening was that Neilson turned into some other road that we weren't aware of and we missed the Finch turn the second time around. We U-turned back and found out that Finch actually turned into Morningside, and instead of going left like we were supposed to do, we went right (being all disoriented and all). We keep going and we ended up at Steeles. By this time, we were mighty confused. So I suggested that we turn onto Steeles, find out what the next major street is and if we're going east then we just keep going until we hit Morningside. We first hit Markham so we keep going. We ended up onto this other street that wasn't Steeles anymore. We passed by a golf course, corn fields, silos, apple orchards and we even saw horses! We knew we were extremely lost when we passed by this dirty looking car lot where people get money for selling car parts. There were a bunch of cubans there smoking cigars and they kept looking at us funny. Probably because we didn't fit into that crowd at all seeing as how we have a shiny new Acura and everything. We kept going and even though we knew we had to U-turn we would've still been lost so we pull over to the shoulder and Abby makes me walk a little while to this little truck called "Chunky Fries" to ask the vendor dude directions. The dude ends up being this old brown guy who couldn't really speak english and he told us to turn left onto this street named Sewells and go over this bridge and we'd get to Morningside. "It may be a little complicated but it's much faster". We trust the dude, turn onto Sewells and we almost regretted it because we didn't see a bridge, but after a little while we saw it and couldn't have been happier. The bridge was one of those one lane ones so if we were on the bridge and there was a car going in the opposite direction coming from the other side, we were totally screwed. It was pure luck that once we got off the bridge (and back onto a two lane road) that a car passed us and went onto the bridge. We drove a winding road passing lots of garbage and it looked like one of those places were you could dump garbage and dead people and no one would ever find out. We finally make it to a street light and we were clapping with joy. Well, I was anyways, Abby had to drive. There's a sign that said: <--Morningside Finch--> and we finally made it onto Morningside! We kept going and we saw Sheppard and I FINALLY got to his house. It just took us almost an hour, and it would have been 20 minutes or less if Abby would have just driven on the highway.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Or, you know, it's just one bus from STC. =)

June 13, 2005 8:03 p.m.  
Blogger barbara said...

quiet you

June 13, 2005 10:12 p.m.  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dosen't Corey live at Meadowvale/ Sheppard?

June 14, 2005 3:48 p.m.  
Blogger barbara said...

Yea, it's meadowvale. But MAPQUEST said to go on Morningside until we get to Sheppard so..XP

June 14, 2005 9:55 p.m.  

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