** I hope this is read with my sarcasm in mind! I was laughing as I typed it!
Yes, that would be me. You'd think I would have it down pat since I took classes last Winter- but honestly most of them were online and the only one I had to actually go to was a lab- and it was a single destination. The last time I was in the nursing dept. was 4 years ago, and with alot of construction- everywhere- there have been alot of location changes. So, today I had to bring in copies of my CPR card and nursing license. I walk down to the nursing dept to hand them in. The admin assistant says 'oh, you will need to make copies of those for us'. I'm thinking to myself, 'ok, can't you do it real quick since there's a copy machine right behind you?' But I just smiled politely and said 'where is the closest copy machine?' Thinking she would offer the one behind her.. but NOOoo, the closest one is in the library. Ok. I know where the library is. I'll be back. So I grab my stuff, walk up 2 flights of stairs, all the way around the building to the library. Except it's not the library anymore. Honestly, I didn't know what it was. I walked into this big lit up room to the front desk. 'Hi, ma'am. Can you tell me where the library is?' She gave me the 'look' and said 'you don't know where the library is??' and she smirked. 'Uh, no ma'am I don't that's why I'm asking. I haven't been here in 4 years and the last time I was here, this is where it was.' Ahh, yes. Now she knows why I was asking such a stupid question. So she tells me how to get there. Once again, grab my stuff(apparently I kept setting it down) and walk all the way around the other side of the building, now up 1 flight of stairs to where I thought she directed me. Nope. Financial Aid office. Crap. Ok, next lady to help me. 'Hi, can you tell me where the library is?' She also gives me the look- like are you from the moon or what. She gave me much clearer directions and I walked now the last mile of the building back to where I literally parked. There's the library. Right where I walked in. Hmm. Never saw it. Ok, so I walk up to the lady at this desk. I'm in the library. 'Hi, I need to make copies and get my student nurse badge picture taken. Can you show me where to go?' Oh sure, now I had to go BACK down a flight of stairs 2nd floor commons area of the library for all of this. Great, thanks. Freaking stair stepping today and I feel like I AM from the moon. So I get downstairs... find a copy machine. 10 cents to make copies!!! Are you serious??? So I dig thru my wallet and find a quarter, thinking to myself 'please make change!' Which it did. Whew. Next I'm walking to the desk for my badge. Tell them what I need and had to fill out all kinds of paperwork. Ok, easy enough. Finally, get my copies and bring them back to the nursing dept. Then, I'm off to a scrubs store downtown Muskegon to get my MCC emblem sewn to my lab coat. I printed up directions (smart, eh?)and they also gave me pre-printed directions- so was on my way. It tells me to take the North Muskegon BR South and turn right on Pine. Only about 2.9 miles. So, I do... and I'm looking for Pine.... and looking for Pine... and end up on the business loop in Norton Shores heading to who knows where!! By this time, I got anxious b/c I truly didn't know where I was and it was completley WHITE outside. Grrr. So I move over lanes to try and back track and oops, pulled right in front of someone. Sorry. I waved like 'hmm, yes, I'm the idiot of the day'. Thankfully I called my mom who was able to tell me where I was and I found the ramp to head back toward Grand Haven after about 15 minutes of driving nowhere!! So, needless to say, I didn't make it the scrubs shop and don't really care! ;) It was just one of those days that I could laugh or cry at the situation. Today, I chose to laugh!
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Well, I'm glad you laughed and that you made it home safely... the roads weren't great to say the least!
I am laughing so hard because this is SO something I WOULD DO!! At least you have day 1 behind you. Hope it gets easier! Talk to ya soon! Jen O
Sounds like a rough day, great that you could find some humor in it. It totally sounds like something I would do, me and directions don't mix!
Haha I have been there before when I went to GVSU! I stayed lost for the whole 3 years I went there!!!!! Glad you could laugh about it. And hey, sounds like you got some good exercise out of the deal running up and down all those stairs!
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