remembrances from the past

In reading Mari's blog about driving vehicles you are not used , I remembered the following from my past a few years ago...

As an assistant dean we had Lake Day where we loaded up all the kids and drove a couple hours and played in the lake all day. Well, I didn't end up with a map, and I lost my leader at a stop light. Girls in my car thought they knew the way, but they didn’t. Then people at a car lot gave us the wrong directions, we took a few wrong turns, and I ended up needing to pull a 3 point turn around in the middle of the road (old country road, nobody around, no place to pull out and turn around). With the lovely automatic that I was not used to, as I shifted into drive to pull back around, the van sort of rolled backwards - into the ditch! This van had low clearance as well, so the bottom was slightly scraping along the road. So I had to have the vanload of girls get out and push us out of the ditch...

We eventually arrived at the lake about 2 hours late and just about the time they were ready to send the State Patrol out to find us...