COL DUNCAN | Local | CONTACT
After cancelling Sunday dinner for the last few weeks in a row because he lacks the emotional intelligence to spend time around his family when recovering from a session of extreme binge drinking, local man Doug Horne (32) has finally gone home to see his folks.
To nobody’s surprise, it was only a few minutes before his old man asked, “Which way did you come?”
In what seems to be an ongoing battle for Australian his age, the old man hasn’t quite grasped the concept of maps navigation technology yet – and still believes that the best measure of a man is judged on how well he has memorised the streets of his local area.
“Every time I come here, he asks me which way I came.”
“They’ve lived in the same house for 9 years. I used my phone the first time, and I’ve remembered ever since.”
“I don’t know why he thinks he’s living in a tunnel system. There’s only one way to come here.”
What did come as a surprise, was the old man actually being impressed with his route, after Doug decided to give a more thorough run down of his commute to avoid having this conversation ever again.
“It’s the same route though! I didn’t do anything differently, he just said that at this time of the day, that was the right road to take”
“He just likes going for a drive sometimes I think. There is no reason to go ‘the back way’. “
“Any time he thinks he’s saving by not sitting in traffic, he spends driving so much further. It just doesn’t make any sense”
However, the pat on the back didn’t go un-noticed, and should buy Doug a couple more weekends of cancelling dinner.
