Wise words from Dad in “The Brady Bunch” film. If only I had heeded them last Saturday…
I was going to deliver some training workshops at a conference in Port Seton, down the coast from Edinburgh. I left my house at 8am, knowing I needed to be at my destination for 9 to have time to set up, and confident that I’d got more than enough time in hand – I even anticipated that for once I might be a good bit early.
The journey was uneventful, the traffic was not too busy at that time on a Saturday morning as I made my way around the city by-pass. I hit a series of uncomplicated junctions and roundabouts and navigated them with no problems, just needing a cursory glance at my printout of directions from AA’s route finder site.
As I drove down to where Prestonpans, Cockenzie and Port Seton all run essentially along the same road by the coast I got to that stage in my journey where I knew I just had to look out for the signs and landmarks my colleagues had told me to aim for. So I drove, and drove, and drove. I followed signs for community centres, scooted to likely-looking buildings and anxiously watched the clock as my early arrival was steadily eroded.
Then. THEN…I realised that the signs for Prestonpans Community Centre were going to do me no good at all, and the reason I couldn’t find the streets on my map of Port Seton was that I was actually driving around Prestonpans and had been for the last 20 minutes.
How stupid am I?!
This is, according to my good friend Brunette Koala, known as a Malteser moment. Look at her blog for some more classic examples. It’s good to know there’s more than one of us. Or maybe just quite worrying…
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October 11, 2008 at 6:44 pm
brunettekoala
Hee hee.
There’s nothing wrong with having a malteser moment, frustrating at the time, but a lesson not to take ourselves too seriously…
October 13, 2008 at 12:42 pm
bringonthejoy
Yes, but I’d like to be able to take myself seriously just once!
October 13, 2008 at 7:08 pm
brunettekoala
yeah, I know what you mean…
October 13, 2008 at 11:38 pm
Duncan
Ahhhh, it’s spreading…………..!
October 15, 2008 at 8:50 pm
brunettekoala
Mwa ha ha ha…it could happen to you…..!!!
October 16, 2008 at 9:50 pm
bringonthejoy
Yes, as a small group we’re meant to be sharing everything aren’t we? Even maltesers?!
October 16, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Marla
Heaven forbid if you all should have a malteser mment all at once! I may have to come over and rescue you all! (Sounds like a good idea anyway!)
October 17, 2008 at 11:55 am
bringonthejoy
That would be so cool! We could do a tour of Edinburgh coffee shops!
As far as small group malteser moments go, I think it’s only me and BK who are the problem…!
October 18, 2008 at 1:30 am
brunettekoala
everyone has a malteser moment at some point or other. Just some of us have more moments than others…
And maybe it’s not that me and BOTJ are the only ones that have malteser moments, it’s just that we’re the only ones who openly admit to having them….
😉
October 20, 2008 at 9:17 am
bringonthejoy
Amen sister!