Dear Google Maps,
z 578 7m777qzzCd!
Erm, excuse the interruption. That was my 14-month-old nephew’s contribution to this letter.
Although if I wanted to express in code the words I was shouting muttering in my truck last night as I got thoroughly lost in downtown Atlanta, “z 578 7m777qzzCd” is as good a translation as any.
Google Maps, I asked you to give me directions from my house in the country to Buckhead in north Atlanta.
First, thank you for FINALLY showing my street on your map without a little loop at the end. Or sending me across the bridge that’s been out since 1980. Of course, I don’t expect to get lost on my street anytime soon.
As for Buckhead… Here’s some advice:
Turn-by-turn directions, while fantastic in theory, lose some of their lustre in reality when you instruct me to get off the freeway on an exit that DOES. NOT. EXIST.
Yeah.
Oh okay, technically there IS an exit there. For CARPOOLS. See, the problem is that I don’t remember checking a “send me on the carpool route because I am not a loner always have friends in the car with me” box.
I think I’d remember a box like that.
So anyway. Thanks for the fascinating tour of Buckhead I took when I finally did get off the freeway – five miles later. And next time you make a map, you might want to talk to the nice girl at the event who Katdish roped into giving me directions. SHE got me there right away.
Sincerely, Disgruntled Loner
***
Of course, when I arrived at Off the Blogs last night, my adventures were just beginning.
1. Parking was a nightmare, and I ended up a block away in a big office building’s back lot. When I left my truck, I gave it a big hug, since I wasn’t sure if I’d see it again.
2. I know you’ve all been waiting for this one: I met Katdish. And yes, she IS as obnoxious in real life.
3. I think Katdish thought I was a stalker. For no reason. I mean, I only took her down a dark alley to get to my truck. I knew she was nervous when she turned to me and said, “I want you to know – I’ll cut you.”
4. I ended up cut-free. And my truck was still in its spot, unharmed.
5. Katdish and I had a slumber party in her hotel room. And we stayed up too late cracking up at each other’s comments on other people’s blogs.
(What kind of sad, sick, antisocial individuals spend most of their first meeting talking via computer? Just call us Una and Bomber.)
6. Ooh, and Katdish brought me STUFF. Check it.
Look! I even got her autograph!
Oh yes. Your eyes do not deceive you. Katdish presented me with
My. Very. Own. Snuggie.
My kids are gonna be so jealous.
***
Of course,
I tried it on the minute I got home.
Help us, Snuggi-Wan Kenobi. You’re our only hope.
I’ll post some deeper / more serious thoughts on last night’s happenings soon.
But now the kids are home and I have to set the timer for them to take turns with the Snuggie.
17 responses so far ↓
1 Beth // Feb 27, 2009 at 9:14 pm
Oh. My. Goodness. That picture is awesome!!
I reeeeeally think it’s time we got that video done. Seminary be darned. It’s go time.
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2 Helen // Feb 27, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Steph, love the picture. And I am sure Katdish was kidding when she said she’d cut you. I am glad you had fun.
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3 elizabeth channel // Feb 27, 2009 at 10:55 pm
I love it!
I think the Snuggie commercials should talk about the enhanced sword-wielding freedom provided by the roomy Snuggie sleevelets. My children will thrill to this photo!
If I had a dollar for every time I’ve been lost in downtown Atlanta, I could buy my own Snuggie. Better yet, I could buy my whole family a set of Snuggies!
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4 Charlie // Feb 27, 2009 at 11:25 pm
For the record, Stephanie wanted me to take a picture of her in the Snuggie mimicking the picture on the box (which I did). But I was the one who saw her inner Jedi and asked her to pose accordingly. (Seriously, every time I saw the commercial with the gray haired guy with the billowing sleeves, I thought “Jedi.”)
5 Jon Acuff // Feb 28, 2009 at 8:17 am
Steph -
It was awesome meeting you at Off the Blogs. And I am incredibly jealous of the Snuggie.
Jon
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6 Helen // Feb 28, 2009 at 8:23 am
Jon Acuff was pleased to meet you! I bet you didn’t ask any of my questions…;-)
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7 Hat Chick // Feb 28, 2009 at 8:54 am
“Snuggie-Wan Kenobi”……tears rolling down my face because I am laughing so hard!
8 sherri // Feb 28, 2009 at 9:30 am
Awesome photo!
I bet you had a blast- can’t wait for more details!
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9 katdish // Feb 28, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Just for the record…
I was saying “I will cut you” to any number of random scary people that could have been hiding in our general vicinity. I’m brave and bold like that…
And seriously, I can’t believe how long that Snuggie is on you! Sherri would need the children’s Snuggie, and still probably get it tangled up in her 5 inch heels! Thanks for everything! You, in contrast to me, are actually way nicer in person.
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10 Rachel@Grasping... // Feb 28, 2009 at 5:09 pm
That sounds terribly fun!!! We need another B’Ham Blogger gettogether. Or I’m just going to have to hop in and drive to ATL.
11 the domestic fringe // Feb 28, 2009 at 11:03 pm
LOL That light saver goes quite well with the snuggie!
-FringeGirl
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12 thefarmerfiles // Mar 1, 2009 at 10:26 am
Hysterical. I clapped my hand over my huge smile when I scrolled and saw your picture!
13 Amy Warden // Mar 1, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I’m so with you on the google maps. They get me lost whenever I go downtown KC. I must say that the more times I get lost, the better I learn my way around though…
Love the Snuggie.
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14 Amy Warden // Mar 1, 2009 at 4:50 pm
And the comment luv has been stuck on my 25 Random Things for about a month now. What’s up with that?
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15 Marni // Mar 2, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Google Maps and I broke up a while back. He did some things I couldn’t hang with, and I was all “dude, I just wanted to go to Build A Bear in Fort Worth” and he was all, “no, you wanna go tour a crack neighborhood with a carload of other people’s kids with you”. So yeah, we’re done.
I’m jealous of the Snuggie. I live near Dallas. It’s too friggin hot to wear those. If I had one, I’d put in on before picking up my daughter from school. That would be awesome to embarrass her like that…
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16 katdish // Mar 2, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Marni,
I’m working with the Slanket people on a design for those of us in Texas and points further south. It’s a little something I like to call “The Slankini”.
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17 KQ // Apr 6, 2009 at 2:19 am
Hillarious. I think a great follow to this post would be a montage of pictures of you in buckhead wearing your snuggie. enjoyed.
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