Steward... took the wrong turn and just kept on going.


I guess he had a hungry heart.

headline makes me think of the joke:

The doctor says to a man "I'm sorry, sir, but the test results have come back a tad inconclusive. Your wife could have either AIDs or Alzheimer's. We're not sure which".

The man replies, "Oh my God! That's awful! What should I do?"

The doctor says, "Take her across town and leave her there. If she finds her way back, don't fark her!"

The fact that somebody like that is on the road is scary.

was he driving this?

I'm going to have to say that he's either completely senile or that he's just lying because he's too polite to say "I needed to get away from that awful shrew for a day."

FTFA: "He handed me his mobile and asked if I could speak to his wife"

This was clearly a man who desperately wanted to get away from his wife.

1. Go out for morning paper
2. "Accidentally" drive 370 miles and have policeman call wife
3. ???
4. Ditch wife and profit!

Sybarite: Steward... took the wrong turn and just kept on going.


I guess he had a hungry heart.

+1

...adding he did not need a satellite navigation device as he'd only been lost once.

He failed to mention that the "once" was from December 1972 to March 1997.

Oh geez Mortimer, Nooooo!

81 years old? 370 miles in 9 hours = about 40mph. I wonder how much of that was highway....

Man, I get stuck behind those slow drivers all the time on the freeway. Even the 18-wheelers are tailgating them.

Ryoga Hibiki approves!

Thankfully, once the new health care plan in implemented, we won't have to worry about this sort of thing.

in = is

I was at a Sunset beach in Cape May, NJ. Those who know southern NJ realize that's about as south as you can get. Basically, if you keep driving south in that state, hit the ocean, turn and keep going, you'll eventually dead end at that beach.

Well, I was in a gift shop there at 9:30 at night and a guy comes in to ask for directions. He was on his way to Maryland from Newark and he missed the turn onto the highway that would take him there, and apparently just kept driving with his poor family. He was many hours away from the turn, not to mention his destination. He waited until he absolutely had no other choice than to ask for directions.

And he calls himself a man! Come on, if he'd kept going for another 24,530 miles he'd have been back where he started.

I once had a couple of college friends who tried to drive from Orlando to Tally and ended up in Atlanta before they realized they were lost

There is a Florida tag for a reason.

He should have made a left in Albuquerque.

Reminds me of a high school friend who drove from Smyrna, TN to Chattanooga, TN because she didn't know how to turn around on the interstate. She ran out of gas in Chattanooga and had no cash at all for some reason. Her parents had to drive and get her.

/cool story, bro
//and everyone thought she was kind of a ditz before that incident

Sybarite: Steward... took the wrong turn and just kept on going.


I guess he had a hungry heart.

No,no,no!
I saw only 18 people had posted and though for sure I would be the first person to make this connection cus no one ever rtfa!

Where was he going without ever knowing the way?

/haha, you got it stuck in your head now
//you're welcome

for once Fark was scooped by the radio station I listen to at work. usually it's the other way around.

louiedog: I was at a Sunset beach in Cape May, NJ. Those who know southern NJ realize that's about as south as you can get. Basically, if you keep driving south in that state, hit the ocean, turn and keep going, you'll eventually dead end at that beach.

Well, I was in a gift shop there at 9:30 at night and a guy comes in to ask for directions. He was on his way to Maryland from Newark and he missed the turn onto the highway that would take him there, and apparently just kept driving with his poor family. He was many hours away from the turn, not to mention his destination. He waited until he absolutely had no other choice than to ask for directions.

Believe it or not, you're technically in the South in Cape May. It's the only part of NJ that is below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Dude could've just got on the ferry to Dewey Beach. Of course the last Ferry leaves at 9 so...

Quick, everyone, find a way to blame newspapers on this.

Pants full of macaroni!!: Where was he going without ever knowing the way?

/haha, you got it stuck in your head now
//you're welcome

I that song!

Got to hang out with that band (even got a tour of their bus) one night after a concert. If I wrote about that in detail, it would indeed be a cool story, bro!

I heart that song!

Originally, "heart" was in brackets.

/they took my heart away

My sister had a friend who did something similar. She was suppose to drive west on 70 from downtown Indy to go home (about 10min drive on the highway). Instead, she went East, and ended up in NY or some shiat. She was messed up in the head, I tell ya.

/COOL, VERY COOL STORY

I just kept running and running.

Sybarite: Steward... took the wrong turn and just kept on going.


I guess he had a hungry heart.

Sounds like marriage

How do you get that lost in Austria? It's not that big is it? and the mountains make great landmarks to navigate by.

How did he drive 370 miles without having to stop and fill up? must be a prius or something

Pextor: for once Fark was scooped by the radio station I listen to at work. usually it's the other way around.

So you listen to Boortz too?

See! This is why I never stop and ask for directions. Cop went straight to the papers with the poor guys honest mistake.

jaybaz: See! This is why I never stop and ask for directions. Cop went straight to the papers with the poor guys honest mistake.

Never talk to the cops.

This kind of thing happened to my grandmother. She is diabetic and basically went into some sort of sugar shock. She went to the store to get a crossword puzzle book, and ended up 4 hours away in Annapolis. She did not remember the entire incident. She thought someone was dead because the last memory she had was being at home, then being in a police station halfway across the state. Not only did she cross the Bay Bridge (which she was never able to do... always had to close eyes or duck down and cover her head because she is afraid of heights) but she also stopped in Annapolis and bought gas and food on her credit card.

They only found her because she eventually wrecked her car. She turned at the turn arrow painted on the road rather than at the intersection.

Was he wearing pants?

/Inquiring minds want to know.

/hot

When you live in Vienna and want the Tiroler Tageszeitung, you do NOT have to drive all the way to Innsbruck to get one.

Attention to derail: /hot

yes! was waiting for that.

altho the original article on news.com.au (new window) says nothing about him going for the paper

"The 80-year-old identified as Eric, from Pambula, near Merimbula on the NSW south coast, set off from a friend's house at Yass, on the Hume Highway southwest of Sydney, about 7.15am on Monday for the 613km trip home. "

/party pooper, i am

Please don't take me in, 'cuz my old lady will kick my ass!

I was only s'posed to go down to Buckhead and get the paper, next thing I know, I'm on I-75 headed for Florida!!

/obscure