-=> Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 04-11-19  05:32 <=-

 >  JM> I had a map, but found I was just a couple of blocks from where I
 >  JM> wanted to be.  And yes there were still maps at gas stations but
 >  JM> none had the information I needed.
 > Nothing with the local detail...?  Or anyone that could show you, You
 > Are Here, on a map....
 JM> Most of the gas jockeys I spoke to were uniformly rude and gave the
 JM> impression I was interrupting something important they were doing,
 JM> even if it was just leaning against a gas pump.

That's sad...

 JM> I've told this story several times over the years and almost to a
 JM> person people who have traveled in NY (either city or state) tell me
 JM> the same thing, they were told "I don't know".
 
I've traveled rather extensively in NYS, and somewhat in NYC... but
perhaps I've been fortunate enough to not need to ask for directions or
help.... 

 >  JM> For all I know he may still be driving around trying to find it 35
 >  JM> years later.    
 > I'm sure that by now, he would have given up on it, and be off
 > somewhere else by now...  
 JM> I imagine.  

..Instead of being like the song about Charlie and the MTA... his fate
still unknown... "he may ride forever on the streets of Boston, he's the
man who never returned"...  

 JM> Another event in my life, which I think I've mentioned here before,
 JM> was when I was around seven or eight.  
 JM> My father had gone to the court house of a neighbouring town.  It
 JM> was a hot summer day and I had been given an ice cream cone.
 JM> Part way through the ice cream was melting faster than I could eat
 JM> it and just tossed it out the open window.  I tossed a bit too hard
 JM> since it flew through the air landing on the drivers seat of a black
 JM> '48 Ford sedan. Suddenly I went from carefree and happy to worried
 JM> the owner would return before my father.  What seemed like hours passed
 JM> until my father came back and we left before that driver.
 JM> For years when I saw a black '48 Ford sedan I was sure that was the
 JM> driver looking for me.  

I'm sure the statute of limitations has expired on that one... and
probably so has the owner of that sedan...    That would have been
quite the surprise for him/her, coming back to the car... 

ttyl      neb

... There's no substitute for incomprehensible good luck.

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