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How long have you driven in the wrong direction??

  • Tiger v Gorilla said...

    I ask because I had a driver last night who drove 4 HOURS in the wrong direction and only stopped because we called her wondering where she was.

    She was supposed to drive from Montgomery Alabama to Atlanta Georgia, but went the wrong way and we called her in Jackson Mississippi. Don't you think the giant sign saying "Welcome to Mississippi" would be a giveaway that your going the wrong way.

    Now I gotta go in Sunday and offload her loads, and be on every conference call explain pure stupidity. This fricking sucks!!!

    Couple of hours for me. Girlfriend, her sister and I in college going to the outer banks. I was sleeping in the back. They stopped for gas and switched drivers. Got back on the high way the wrong way. I woke up and said WTF?

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    DWags

  • I was driving yo my aunts new house. I was driving on 23 and got passed by this corvet who was doing around 100. Decided I would follow him. I got really into following this guy weaving in and out of cars. Took me about 15 miles to realize I was supposed to get off at 96. But it was fun so whatever

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  • I was trying to visit a delicious root beer stand and realized I turned down the wrong street. I quickly put on my brakes and turned around at the nearest driveway.

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  • My girlfriend once called me lost. I asked her why she didn't get on 696 like I told her to. She told me she thought it was the wrong exit because "It says Lansing and Port Huron on it and I didn't want to go to either of those places." lol

    Spartan313

  • 437 M.A.C. said...

    Nope. You would have thought that Lake Mead would have been a clue as well. Drove right by that.

    Was this before or after they built the bridge by Hoover dam? If before then you must've been fucking hammered because driving over Hoover dam is quite noticeable lol

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  • Funny, but I just recenlty had the first prolonged case of wrong way driving that I can remember. Stopped for gas in some PA town off I80 after dark, then drove 20 miles or so before realizing that the next town was actually the last town.

    Xeones

  • Don't think this is what you meant, but two weeks ago I was in Minneapolis on business in my shitty Chevy Aveo rental. I turned left ONTO an off ramp. Shit is fucked up there. I'm used to driving in some craziness but greater Minneapolis blew my mind. Not sure what the fuck they have going on with their roads there. About 30 seconds. I realized it quickly and U'ied.

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  • WhiteBoyHatcher said...

    Don't think this is what you meant, but two weeks ago I was in Minneapolis on business in my shitty Chevy Aveo rental. I turned left ONTO an off ramp. Shit is fucked up there. I'm used to driving in some craziness but greater Minneapolis blew my mind. Not sure what the fuck they have going on with their roads there. About 30 seconds. I realized it quickly and U'ied.

    On the highway, I assume? There is nothing scarier than hearing about someone going the wrong way down a highway, but it happens quite often.

    I was in northern Kentucky and turned the wrong way down a one-way street. I saw all these cars coming at me. (3 lanes worth). For some reason, I was completely calm. I even said, "no problem" as I turned onto a small incline on the side of the road and turned around before the cars got to me. For some reason, I think about that a lot even though it was several years ago.

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  • WhiteBoyHatcher said...

    Don't think this is what you meant, but two weeks ago I was in Minneapolis on business in my shitty Chevy Aveo rental. I turned left ONTO an off ramp. Shit is fucked up there. I'm used to driving in some craziness but greater Minneapolis blew my mind. Not sure what the fuck they have going on with their roads there. About 30 seconds. I realized it quickly and U'ied.

    That happened to me in Edinburgh, Scottland. Bad enough to be driving on the "wrong" side of the road to being with, I was returning my rental and turned the wrong way onto a major thoroughfare... for about 30 meters. Luckily it was wide enough to make a quick U-turn.

    Xeones

  • Back in the day before I was married, the wife (no pics) is living in Texas and her sister is living in Bangor, MI. She calls up her travel agent in Houston and says she needs a flight to Bangor. Travel Agent books the flight. Wife goes to the airport, boards the plane, gets off the plane and finally realizes she's in Bangor, MAINE instead of Bangor, Michigan. Apparently didn't have a clue between ME and MI abbreviation and wasn't paying much attention.

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  • Yeah, I was in the left turn lane trying to follow my GPS and I apparently turned into the off ramp. It looked a little funky to me but I went with it and as soon as I did it I realized I done fucked up and did a U-Turn, with a very red face.

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  • Count gHostula said...

    Was this before or after they built the bridge by Hoover dam? If before then you must've been fucking hammered because driving over Hoover dam is quite noticeable lol

    This was 2 years ago. To be honest with you I don't really remember. I was super fucked up. I remember thinking: "this doesn't seem right." but i kept telling myself that I would figure things out and just kept driving. The look on the face of the clerk in the gas station in Kingman was priceless when I finally stopped to ask where I was.

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  • Tiger v Gorilla said...

    Now I gotta go in Sunday and offload her loads

    I could offload some loads for you.

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  • When I first moved to San Diego, my east /west directions were all messed up because the ocean used to always be closest east. So, I'd recognize that where I was going was in the direction of the ocean and just instinctively get on the east bound highway [LOL].

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  • Not driving, but one time after a bar crawl, I left Rick's at about 1am to go home. Had to go to Spartan Ave out near Hagadorn. So i started walking and walking, looked to my right...Harrison Roadhouse.

    It's strange because while i was real sauced, i wasn't blacked out or anything. It was just like i had it in my mind that whatever direction i chose to walk in was where i needed to go, or something.

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  • Tiger v Gorilla said...

    I ask because I had a driver last night who drove 4 HOURS in the wrong direction and only stopped because we called her wondering where she was.

    She was supposed to drive from Montgomery Alabama to Atlanta Georgia, but went the wrong way and we called her in Jackson Mississippi. Don't you think the giant sign saying "Welcome to Mississippi" would be a giveaway that your going the wrong way.

    Now I gotta go in Sunday and offload her loads, and be on every conference call explain pure stupidity. This fricking sucks!!!

    You work for a trucking company that doesn't employ GPS...?

    Once drove miles out of the way (without GPS) after missing a turn in Tennessee. Was headed to a plant for a quote lineup in Morristown but ended up in Knoxville. Added about an hour and a half to the trip.

    Side note: Went through the Cumberland Gap Tunnel twice, headed to Morristown and the return trip. The sensation I got after entering the tunnel (almost a mile long) was that the roadway seemed downhill...in both directions lol

    The Pantry

  • That John Denver is full of shit.

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  • I had it going through about the third grade. Been going in the wrong direction ever since.

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    GreenMeany

  • I got twisted around in Northern, IN, east of Fort Wayne. Winter, early sunset, my first trip to the area. Everything looked the same after sunset. By the time I figured out I was going away from Fort Wayne I saw a sign for Plymouth, IN, and saw a sign for South Bend. I knew how to get home via South Bend. (I got an IN map before my next trip)

    When I was in HS, a non-English speaker (I think it was Polish) pulls into the gas station where I was working, pulled out a map and asked "How far to Detroit?" The gas station was about 5 miles West of the I 96 exit on 28th St. He got gas and was a lot of gas so he must have been near empty.

    So I asked where they started their trip. He pointed south of Toledo, like Bowling Green area. He's gone up 75 stayed left, hit US 23 and had turned left again so he had missed 75 and because he couldn't read signs well had also missed Detroit at the 23/96 intersection. I went back to the car with him. He had a 12-13 year old son who did speak English. I explained to the son the errors . Dad was pissed at the wife (Classic case of are we lost? NO WE ARE NOT !) I marked their map and they were on their way. We felt bad for them. They were going to have 8 hours in a car for a 2 hour trip.

    GRR Spartan

  • How do you wind up driving the wrong side of a divided highway?

    Wrong-way driver causes serious crash on 696

    A man driving the wrong way down 696 caused a head-on crash early Sunday morning in Madison Heights.

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  • Gave directions to a very confused someone near St Johns on 127 to St. Louis, MICHIGAN once. He was in a Tux, from Florida, and headed to a wedding in St. Louis, MISSOURI.... Learn those state abbreviations before using mapquest people.... Welcome to Ohio- Or the few before that weren't a red flag?

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  • Spent the day in Panama City Beach then had to drive to Tallahassee. There was a lot of traffic headed north toward the highway so I decided to pick up a map and find an alternate route. The map showed a road just west of us that went straight north to the highway, so like a dumbass I started heading in that direction. Turns out the road was at least 45 minutes in the wrong direction and after I had been driving on it for about an hour without seeing any other cars I hit a dead end, as the road was closed due to construction. Turned around and went all the way back to Panama City, where I got stuck in traffic again.facepalm_msu

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  • Final Countdown said...

    Honestly, never more than 10 miles.

    Pretty much this. I've missed a few exits here and there, but I usually notice quickly.

    When my dad and I were going to the Champs Sports Bowl back in 2007, for some reason he "remembered" that the hotel was on the east side of the exit (one would think that you would bring directions for this, but I guess not.) After driving for about 20 minutes, we still aren't seeing the hotel. So after being exasperated, I called the hotel and they said they were on the west side of the exit. I don't think I've let my dad live that one down yet.

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  • Tiger v Gorilla said...

    we were joking around quoting that scene once we got over the WTF moment. All we could do was laugh about it and that point and try to clean up the mess

    Did the letters, GPS, ever enter the productivity discussion? If you have a known dumbass, why not invest in some technology to prevent this kind of thing?

    Loose Stools

  • The Pantry said...

    You work for a trucking company that doesn't employ GPS...?

    Once drove miles out of the way (without GPS) after missing a turn in Tennessee. Was headed to a plant for a quote lineup in Morristown but ended up in Knoxville. Added about an hour and a half to the trip.

    Side note: Went through the Cumberland Gap Tunnel twice, headed to Morristown and the return trip. The sensation I got after entering the tunnel (almost a mile long) was that the roadway seemed downhill...in both directions lol

    Just saw your post--basically my thoughts, too. UPS doesn't use GPS, either, which is crazy. That company is on their driver's ass if they stop longer than a couple minutes, but they don't give them an incredibly useful tool to help productivity. I don't understand why a delivery company can't plot all the deliveries and let a computer find the most efficient route and then have the drivers use a GPS which can constantly update traffice/road conditions and adjust the routes on the fly. Don't understand it.

    Loose Stools

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