Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site aecom.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!philabs!aecom!david From: david@aecom.UUCP (David Suna) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: (One that really happened) Message-ID: <1785@aecom.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Jul-85 14:06:38 EDT Article-I.D.: aecom.1785 Posted: Tue Jul 9 14:06:38 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Jul-85 04:22:18 EDT References: <762@aluxe.UUCP> <526@rtech.UUCP> <1781@aecom.UUCP> Reply-To: david@aecom.UUCP (PUT YOUR NAME HERE) Organization: Albert Einstein Coll. of Med., NY Lines: 32 Summary: In article <1781@aecom.UUCP> werner@aecom.UUCP (Craig Werner) writes: > > The best set of directions I ever got was when we were trying to >cross the Delmarva Peninsula and were looking for a Maryland state highway >to cut off. > We stopped for directions at a roadside farm stand. >The directions: > > It's the second left, no the third left, no, it's second, no ... > [long pause.] > Just keep going till you see a billboard on your left. When you > see that, you've gone too far, turn around and it's the first street > on your right! > >-- > Craig Werner > !philabs!aecom!werner > "The world is just a straight man for you sometimes" One day I heard someone giving directions and the conversation went like this. "You make a left before the traffic circle." "How do I know which left is before the traffic circle?" "Well when you start going around in a circle you know you went too far." David.