"Within hours, Sabine Moreau should have known she wasn’t in Belgium anymore. But misplaced trust in her GPS direction system turned what should have been a 93-mile trip to Brussels into a 900-mile, two-day odyssey to Croatia. On Jan. 12, Moreau, 67, left her home in Erquelinnes, Belgium, to go pick up a friend from the train station in Brussels. To navigate the trip, Moreau flipped on the GPS system in her car and dutifully followed the directions as she drove southwest hour after hour. First she saw signs written in French. Then German. Then in other languages. All this, she says, didn’t make her realize something had gone terribly wrong. 'It was only when I ended up in Zagreb [Croatia] that I realized I was no longer in Belgium,' she told the UPI. During the 900-mile journey, Moreau stopped for gas twice, got into a minor accident, and even pulled over to sleep for a few hours. When she arrived in Zagreb, she phoned home to find her family had filed a missing person report and police were preparing a manhunt for her."
Ah ha ha ha ha ha! That is just the funniest thing I have read in quite a while, I think!! Take a look at the map to see how far she drove. Probably not the same route, since she went through France and Germany. But still. Is that not hilarious? Sad for her but so funny for me. Seriously, how do you accidentally drive 900 miles?? I've made some really big wrong turns before... I know how crummy it can be... maybe I am just happy that this mistake wasn't mine. And hopefully it wasn't because she was senile, or I will feel really bad about laughing so much.
But still. It's funny.
Oh, and I'm totally not going to have time to get another books post together anytime soon. So if you want to enter the giveaway, you should go ahead and do that.
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