When the Shoe is on The Other Foot!

                                                                                                        - Gemini
 

I have been lost so many times that I now take being lost for granted. And I have always been so grateful for the navigationally savvy persons who have kindly redirected me when I didn’t know where to turn. (We won‘t talk, today, about the Type A personalities who have always acted as if I was the biggest nuisance, as I tried to find my way.)

However, a few weeks ago, I was in the position of the being able to see how a directionally challenged person behaves, and to render assistance to such a person.

My husband and I were at the supermarket – and it isn’t even a huge building. As is my custom, I was walking among the aisles, filling my arms with items, and returning to the trolley which my husband was leisurely pushing, as he picked up his preferred items.

Apparently, he turned his back for a while, and when he turned again, his trolley had disappeared!

As I approached him with my arms loaded with packages, I saw the perplexed look on his face.

“The trolley is missing!” he said.

I was not in the least perturbed because I knew exactly what had happened. Of course, someone had mistakenly taken off with the wrong trolley. Had I not done that many, many times before?

I started looking around to try to identify an abandoned trolley, and sure enough there was one, and I have to say that the items in it were not very dissimilar to ours.

My husband in the meantime, had started up one aisle and down another, in an effort to see who had taken his trolley. Shortly thereafter, I heard him debating with an elderly gentleman regarding the ownership of the trolley that this man was now pushing. The man was adamantly claiming that the trolley was his, although he expressed surprise about some of the items that he did not pick up.

I calmly went for the abandoned trolley and said to the gentleman, “Here is your trolley. The one you have is our trolley.”

 At first, he looked at me with disbelief, but then he exclaimed, “Ah, there’s my hat! I had rested my hat in my trolley!”

Needless to say, all was well that ended well. But of such are the vicissitudes of the directionally challenged.

If you're directionally challenged, you know that life is not easy for us.

If you’re not directionally challenged, know that our lot is not easy.

Any strategy you have - big or small - that can make our lives easier, would be greatly appreciated. 

Please join our Movement to make directional challenge recognizable to those who don't know it, so that together, we can implement policies that will make life easier for all concerned.

I need your help. I need your voice. I need your support. Won't you join me in this endeavor?

You can visit my youtube channel @ https://www.youtube.com/@eulenegreenland6433 to listen to my song about being directionally challenged (hilarious!), or visit my website @ https://www.epatsygreenland.com to get or share some more ideas.

I hope you will.

E.P.G.     


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