Following

I follow three of my favorite authors on Twitter. It surprised me when one of those authors turned around and now follows me! She and I were in Maine at the same time last September and never managed to hook up...the day she had a spontaneous book signing at her hotel my husband got us lost in the boonies while antiquing in an area neither one of us was familiar with. He trusted the GPS and not his human co-pilot who could read the signs, even though he could also read the same signs that I was reading! He still took a wrong turn and got us into a crazy detour loop that we went around three times before I yelled at him to stop going in circles and take THAT road! (He has no sense of direction. I have a terrific sense of direction and have never gotten lost while driving or hiking.) We made it back to where we were staying in time for a late dinner, too frustrated and tired to drive up to Portland where we'd gotten lost downtown the day before. He never lets me drive. He thinks he knows where he's going all the time. I can't count the number of times he's driven past places we're going to, streets we need to take, exits, etc. He is VERY experienced with three point turns, finding unoccupied looking homes in which to pull into their driveways to turn around, and so forth. He doesn't seem to know how to use the brake and slow down as we approach our destination. He always blames the guy behind us for "being on our butt" and about to hit us...evidently everyone who ever follows us anywhere is out to tail end us. I say, "Well, we have insurance." He says, "Well, they probably don't." Okay, we have different driving experience- I learned to drive from my mother whose father was a truck driver. In my twenties I went to the State Police Academy in Framingham and learned defensive driving while working in law enforcement. He learned to drive from, oh, I would guess, his grandmother who could barely see over the steering wheel and could hardly reach the gas pedal. (I don't really know who taught him to drive but he's had a lot of accidents while I've had only three, and none of them were my fault since I was sitting still in traffic in a Mazda Protege and larger, taller vehicles (pickup truckwith what looked like Monster tires on it and another time a Ford Expedition) backed into me because they couldn't see me! Now I drive an SUV- no more small cars!)

I don't know how I veered off on a tangent here...just following my thought train tonight on following...

I didn't get much sleep last night...that brings the silly out in me!