Now and again, I will pick some joker up who tries to catch
me out by asking to go to a street with no houses on which very few people have
heard of.
A few local examples
of these in Barrow in Furness are Water
St , Reservoir
St , Thomson
St , and Wesley
Place . The only time I do get caught out funnily
enough is when at the end of a long busy tiring shift my mind will go blank when
I am asked to go to somewhere I go to every single day.
But the fun really starts when I get jobs in the outlying
villages and countryside especially when I am given vague directions to a place
with just a house name.
I always find that
even in the most remote hamlets when I stop to ask the way it always turns out
to be a stranger to the area or the local village idiot I pick.
On one particular job
a while back I picked a chap who looked sensible enough but when asked the way
he replied “Ista gaan duwn yonder ginnel past meda wi sterks bur tat la left an
gaas on abit lal git ta laurel hedge ista gaas onabit las lare. So that's
exactly what I did and amazingly, I found it fairly easily.
But I couldn't help keep
laughing to myself after that thoughts kept entering my head of this guy doing
the voice directions for those new fangled satellite navigation devices you get
nowadays.
