Ever take the wrong exit?

[Alucard]

What a pain in the ass that is.

I did on the way to school on Tuesday, I had a mild panic attack but my nav system was like "Calm down, asshat. Take this road and turn around."

Still though, it's scary when you don't know where the hell you're going.

This morning I saw what I did wrong and was like AHA, I will not fall for your chicanery again!

Anyone else care to de-appreciate taking the wrong exit?

[darthalexander]

I have a story that's awesome (well, not really but oh well).

When I was a kid, my mother was driving us to some place to visit a friend of hers. We're going there and we get to a spot that's like a big circle that has a few little roads. So we go, and she takes the wrong exit. She curses, but nothing too bad right? So we swing around and come back to where we started and she takes the same wrong turn again. This time, she curses even more.

We go around, get back to where we started and get to that turn...and yeah, she took the same wrong turn again. She cursed so much it would make Andrew Dice Clay blush. Naturally I start laughing because it's funny like hell, which only infuriates her to the max making her scream more..which makes me laugh more...

We eventually made it.

[Avalanche Alvarez]

I live in the Garden State, New Jersey.
The state that has more one way streets than you can shake a stick at and NEVER have a f***ing street sign until after you've passed you exit five miles back.
And my wife is saying "Did you see a sign? I didn't see a sign"
And I say "It's New Jersye, sweetie. Signs aren't required to exit highways. Just drive fifteen f-ing miles out of your way so you can admire the lovely landscapes".

I hate this town.

[Alucard]

I think I have a similar story to yours darthalexander...

One time when I was VERY young we had gone to Dallas to watch a Cowboys game at Texas Stadium. When we left, the traffic was really heavy and I guess that must've caused confusion, I'm fuzzy on the details, but we got lost in the areas around Texas Stadium somehow, missing the way we needed to be going each time. So we'd just keep circling round and round, each time like, "Oh, there it is again...", except me.

I, being very young and stupid, was convinced we were going to stay looping around Texas Stadium for the rest of our lives. I found this...upsetting, to say the least

[bigHEADinc]

One night, while a little under the influence, I hopped onto the freeway with a friend and started driving home. While on the freeway, I see a billboard, one of those simple black-with-white lettering with this simple message...

Are you on the right road?
-God

Being under the influence I scream out "Yes I am, thank you God!"... About 10 minutes later I realized that we were not on the right road at all, going the exact opposite direction, and had been for a solid 20 minutes without me noticing. One of the few times where a billboard was truly useful.

[Alucard]

Aug 28, 2008 11:24:48 GMT -5 bigHEADinc said:

One night, while a little under the influence, I hopped onto the freeway with a friend and started driving home. While on the freeway, I see a billboard, one of those simple black-with-white lettering with this simple message...

Are you on the right road?
-God

Being under the influence I scream out "Yes I am, thank you God!"... About 10 minutes later I realized that we were not on the right road at all, going the exact opposite direction, and had been for a solid 20 minutes without me noticing. One of the few times where a billboard was truly useful.

This made me laugh like an ass out in public on my laptop.

[Dean-o]

When I was a kid I was almost very nervous about taking a wrong exit. I mean, who knows where it could take me???

But as I got older, and started driving, there really is nothing to get upset about. I have a good sense of direction, and there is always a way back.

Except in New Jersey, As Avalanche mentioned, you get lost there and it's nice knowning ya.

[Evil Jan Otto]

Yes, I have took the wrong exit.

My girlfriend couldn't sit down for a week.

[lildude8218]

Me: Well, the exit I have to get off at is 2 exits away, so I guess I should get over into the right lane now so I don't have to fight before it's too late. *moves over to the right lane*

*30 seconds later*

Me: What? The right lane merges off the highway? Why must that happen RIGHT HERE? Oh great, now no one's gonna let me back over either, AWESOME. And of course it's the exit for the Turnpike.

I had to pay a toll to get on, luckily there was a rest area a mile down the road so I pulled in there and turned around. Then got hit with the same toll to get off.

[darthalexander]

I think one of the worst times to get wrong exits is when you're on a trip and having been driving all day and you're tired, and you just want to get to that hotel/motel where your reservation is at.

Naturally at that point finding it is impossible and you spend forever going around and around trying to get to it. You ask for directions, get lost, ask for more, get lost again...then it ends up being something really simple.

Void, your story reminds me of European Vacation.

["Hollywood" Cactus Matt]

Aug 28, 2008 11:09:48 GMT -5 Alucard said:

What a pain in the ass that is.

One time, I was having relations with my now ex-girlfriend, and I tried to get in her "exit."

She said it was a "pain in the ass," too.


;D

[Johnny Danger (Godz)]

I'll tell you what a real pain in the ass is, trying to take the wrong ENTRANCE.


What?

Two or three other people basically made the same joke?

Well f*** them, this is the first time I'VE made it!

[x]

Monday after crossing the Bay Bridge into San Francisco, Highway 80 was ending quickly and it was splitting off into 101 North and 101 South. North would take me to San Francisco, Peninsula and South would take me to San Francisco, San Jose. So I was like "f*** I don't know which San Francisco I'm supposed to go to." I take South. Wouldn't you know, I look at the mapquest directions. "Take 101N"

I'm like "SON OF A BITCH!" so I take the first exit. When I get off the exit there's no entrance to go North. So I spend 15 minutes getting back onto south.

I take the next exit, I'm in the middle of Chinatown. I drive a couple of blocks down and get stuck in one way street hell. Every street is one way and nobody around me spoke English. So I'm driving around San Francisco yelling "FREEWAY! F***ING FREEWAY!" out of my truck's window. Eventually, I get to Candlestick park. Completely on the opposite side of SF from where my friend lives.

A homeless black man at a bus stop near Candlestick says "Hey cracka! Open yo eyes!" and there's a small sign, half covered by a tree that says 101N Detour. So I'm like "Thanks homeless black guy!" And I threw quarters out my window at him.

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Aug 28, 2008 11:09:48 GMT -5 Alucard said:

What a pain in the ass that is.

I did on the way to school on Tuesday, I had a mild panic attack but my nav system was like "Calm down, asshat. Take this road and turn around."

Still though, it's scary when you don't know where the hell you're going.

This morning I saw what I did wrong and was like AHA, I will not fall for your chicanery again!

Anyone else care to de-appreciate taking the wrong exit?

Yeah. I've never had my license, just my permit, but my dad had me drive him to a big computer show at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. I'm speeding down the road, passing cars, slowing down and letting them pass me and just generally trying to get comfortable. He points out the exit a little late and I just didn't feel comfortable trying to jump over as I was in the fast lane doing 70-75 and there was a tractor trailer behind. So I take the next exit which he points out, he says to go slow as he's not sure how to get there from here. Turns out, we get off the exit and you can see the building and it was actually closer and a lot easier to get to from there.

One time, my grandfather and younger sister dropped my older sister off at college in Indiana, PA (central western) and headed back to Lewistown which is damn near the center of PA. They ended up *almost* in Maryland. My sister noticed a sign that said they were like 20-25 miles from the border, so they turned around and found their way home.

But my favorite is my grandparents. My grandfather used to drive up and down the East Coast working for AT&T. Sometimes, he'd take my gram along in a small camper van they had. He was drove all the way through New England and let her take over in PA and told her to drive on the interstate until they got to a certain exit near Baltimore/DC as she didn't mind interstates but didn't like driving in areas she didn't know. So she was to yell and wake him. He went into the back and took a nap. He woke up hours later, came to the front, got a cup of coffee from his thermos and spotted an exit sign. They were in the Carolinas. She said she didn't want to wake him.

[bibboid]

While vacationing in San Diego, my dad was driving us to Sea World.
At the hotel they told him to take I-5 to I-8 West and follow the signs.
Dad turned onto I-8 East.
I told him we were going the wrong way.
He ignored me.
Twenty minutes later, Mom asks, "Shouldn't we be seeing signs by now?"
"What, in the middle of the desert?" I ask.
I finally convince Dad to turn around and he bitches at me the entire drive back to San Diego because I should have told him sooner.

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Aug 28, 2008 13:13:09 GMT -5 @x said:

Monday after crossing the Bay Bridge into San Francisco, Highway 80 was ending quickly and it was splitting off into 101 North and 101 South. North would take me to San Francisco, Peninsula and South would take me to San Francisco, San Jose. So I was like "smurf I don't know which San Francisco I'm supposed to go to." I take South. Wouldn't you know, I look at the mapquest directions. "Take 101N"

I'm like "SON OF A BITCH!" so I take the first exit. When I get off the exit there's no entrance to go North. So I spend 15 minutes getting back onto south.

I take the next exit, I'm in the middle of Chinatown. I drive a couple of blocks down and get stuck in one way street hell. Every street is one way and nobody around me spoke English. So I'm driving around San Francisco yelling "FREEWAY! F***ING FREEWAY!" out of my truck's window. Eventually, I get to Candlestick park. Completely on the opposite side of SF from where my friend lives.

A homeless black man at a bus stop near Candlestick says "Hey cracka! Open yo eyes!" and there's a small sign, half covered by a tree that says 101N Detour. So I'm like "Thanks homeless black guy!" And I threw quarters out my window at him.

The end of that story was hilarious.

[Loki]

A friend of mine drove around the same damn traffic circle near Clitheroe, Lancashire, UK for like 8 times before I convinced her to pull over and to stop yelling at me for not remembering which of the TWO exits we had to take...

I've often got out of the tube at the wrong station in Oslo, mostly because I had the tendency to fall asleep.
I still do it occasionally on the train, despite having travelled the same route for like 10 years.

Or even on the bus in my hometown...

I should stop sleeping on public transportation

[Next Level was WRONG]

Aug 28, 2008 12:39:30 GMT -5 Evil Jan Otto said:

Yes, I have took the wrong exit.

My girlfriend couldn't sit down for a week.

Aug 28, 2008 13:01:51 GMT -5 "Hollywood" Cactus Matt said:

Aug 28, 2008 11:09:48 GMT -5 Alucard said:

What a pain in the ass that is.

One time, I was having relations with my now ex-girlfriend, and I tried to get in her "exit."

She said it was a "pain in the ass," too.


;D

Aug 28, 2008 13:05:49 GMT -5 Johnny Danger (Godz) said:

I'll tell you what a real pain in the ass is, trying to take the wrong ENTRANCE.


What?

Two or three other people basically made the same joke?

Well f*** them, this is the first time I'VE made it!

www.instantrimshot.com/

[Ken Ivory]

Yep, happens me a couple of times. My cheap-ass Sat Nav doesn't help either.

Whenever I'm driving in Belfast, it can't recognise the new underpass that opened up and tells me to take exits at roundabouts that no longer exist.

I tried updating it but there's no-where in the manual to tell me how to do it.

It even once told me to take a left turn when the screen showed a right turn.

Technology, eh?

[Red 'n' Black Reggie]

anyone been on spaghetti junction recently? no one? yeah, that's because most of them are still there. i hate most bits of birmingham.