Driving Two Daisy’s

Bridge to West Virgina (from Ohio)

Last weekend I took off Friday morning on a road trip with my mom and grandma. We were doing great because my mom was driving and I was reading a map that my dad printed out on Street Atlas USA. I quickly noticed that this map had not exit numbers, and did not tell me how may miles I would be on the road. My grandma is on oxygen so after the first two hours of driving we had to stop and change her tank. This is the point that my mom told me I could drive. She did not want to drive though Columbus. I was worried for a few reasons:

• This is my Dad’s Acadia

• My mom is a backseat driver (panics or squeals if she thinks you do not see something – which actually causes a mild heart attack when you are driving)

• My mom cannot read a map.

I was on the road about an hour and I said are we supposed to get off here? She says no so I keep driving. 10 seconds later she says…I think you were supposed to get off back there.

* Awkward Silence*

Hello this is On Star Navigation …we are downloading your map. The next thing I hear while I am driving down the highway is “Please make a legal and safe U-turn” I blink and laugh since I am in Ohio and the cops will arrest you if you if you look at them funny. To make it even worse I have out of state plates, which I am certain, put a big bulls eye on my car. (I had to use the cruise control all the way there) I finally got turned around and we were back on track.

I think I could make a whole other post regarding the things I now know about my mom and grandma after being trapped in a car for a little over 7 hours with them.