Mis-Adventure #2

I have a great new phone, the Blackberry “Storm”. It has GPS like my enV taken in Dec. but this one has a large screen making it easy to use and presumably easy to follow. I GPS everything now which is great when the phone understands what I’m trying to tell it. Otherwise it makes up its own plans.

A couple of days ago I’d finished up in a suburb of Seattle, Bellevue and had planned to stop at the new Whole Foods. I thought that I’d also quick pick up some ink for the printer at the closest computer store as I had claims waiting in the queue and needed to print them up in order to work them.

I was smartly driving down Avondale a main road in that area that goes by Whole Foods, REI and a huge shopping center. I thought that I’d take a little short cut as I was sure I knew the way.

Unfortunately my shortcut put me on a freeway and when I could get off the freeway was nowhere near the shopping center. I stopped and typed in Whole Foods into the GPS but alas there was no Whole Foods in the area. Now this was not the case at all but I couldn’t convince the GPS. So off I went to find the store.

After driving up and down Avondale the empty fuel gauge started dinging; oh I’d forgotten all about the fact that I needed fuel early in the day. I found a gas station with diesel and as I was filling I asked the guy using the other side of the pump where the Whole Foods was. He pointed down to the other side of the street where I had not driven. He also indicated where I could find Staples.

I finished filling up and started driving but could not find the Staples or any other computer store. I did find the Whole Foods so stopped and picked up what I needed.

I thought that I’d just try to go to Frys, my favorite computer store that I’d seen just off the freeway on the way to the RV. I put Frey’s into my trusty GPS and got a hit so off we went. All would work out well. But alas after driving over an hour into the middle of Seattle the GPS was telling me to “Turn Right”, Turn Right, and Turn Right. But I couldn’t turn right, it came up too quick. Finally I turned right; the streets were so narrow there was only room for my truck with traffic circles at each intersection. After starting to drive into the ghetto I decided that I really didn’t want to go where the GPS was taking me. I later found that I wanted Frys not Freys.

I found a parking lot and typed Staples into my GPS. Great there was a Staples right near me, well kind of. And after chasing around now going on 2 hours I found Staples. I went in after assuring Twinks that I would get the ink and we would go home for dinner. There was the printer ink right in front. I rushed over to the Epson section and started looking but couldn’t find any for my R800. Finally near tears I asked a salesperson where the R800 ink was. Alas, Staples does not carry that particular printer’s ink. ACK! I asked the sales guy to point me to I-5 so I could just get back to my RV.

I followed the sale guy’s verbal direction to I-5 and finally got home about 3 hours after starting my search. I pulled up at the RV and told Twinks that she would get dinner right away. I opened the back door of the truck and walla; the Whole Foods bag fell out, upside down on the pavement. Wine bottle was chipped but not broken. That’s the important thing because I needed that wine.