One line my mother and father always said to me was 'Use your eyes! Not your mouth!' It referred to my laziness to look for anything myself, usually just resorting to yelling out, 'Hey, where's the flashlight?' or 'Does anyone know where there's an extension cord?'

Since my client site was only a couple blocks from my hotel, I didn't bother driving this morning. Late last night I did some mapquest directions to the site, and it was 2 blocks away and around the corner. It didn't give street names, just route names, but it wasn't far anyway.

So I got up, checked out, and walked out of the hotel, down the street. And walked. And walked. More than two blocks. Didn't see the street I was supposed to turn on. Kept on walking. Finally, I decided to ask someone where the street was. I walked into a hotel and asked the bellman, 'Excuse me, can you tell me where M--- street is?' He smiled, and said, 'Oh, are you going to *name of my client*?' 'Yes!' I replied.

He then took me out of the hotel and pointed in the opposite direction of where was heading and told me the street I wanted was down a certain block. 'But you can find the building by just looking to the sky.' And he pointed to the tallest building in the area, which in HUGE letters had my client's name.

I felt like the biggest idiot. There I was, wandering the streets, and the building was right there, waiting for me to see it!!!

Next time, I should actually LOOK before asking!

Posted by Yano at July 8, 2004 10:13 PM

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