At a loss for... directions

If you knew me, you would know that I am horrible with directions. If I haven't driven in the specific area that I am driving in more than four or five times, I won't remember anything. It is really kind of a strange thing to me, cause I am really good at remembering images and what not, but when it comes to driving, I just can't do it.

There was one time... a really bad time... where I needed directions to where I was going to get tennis lessons, downtown. My mom wrote me down the streets and where I turned and such, so I started driving and read the paper like she had told me to. Now, usually this works out for me. I mean it is written down, so I won't forget where to turn and such, but sometimes it goes bad. So anyways, the paper told me to take this turn, left, onto a street that was a oneway to the right. I immediately started freaking out because I didn't know what to do! So I called my mom, who started walking me through what to do. It was going okay, until she told me to turn left onto Coe Rd., which was again a oneway right. BUT, since I was on the phone with my mom AND drving, I didn't notice... and what do I do? turn left and end up in the middle of an intersection, downtown, with cars honking at me... very obnoxiously. So, I do the stupidest thing because, well, it was all I could do to get out of the intersection: I drove up onto a sidewalk, drove down that sidewalk, and wound up in a random parking lot. Oh, and the guy who had watched me this whole time, a professor at Coe, I'm sure, walked right up to my window and glared at me. Yeah it was really bad, very very bad, but hey, I am still alive!

Time number two:

I needed directions, this time, to a new doctor's office that I was going to. It was waaay out past Granite City and all those different stores, so I was kind of worried. But hey, I thought, I have these directions and I am NOT going to be downtown with right oneways, so I will be fine! WRONG. Turns out the directions we had gotten were different then where the actual place was because THEY never changed their new address on the mapquest thing. So yeah... I followed all the directions, all proud of myself, and I wound up at a daycare center. In the end, I got there, after calling my dad and him and I figuring out where to go, and it was too late for me to even have my appointment.

There have been more times where I have been beaten by the scary streets of Iowa, but too many to list them all