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I had an appointment at 9 today I had to go to. On the way home I had a total clusterf**k of wrong directions. I didn't take my normal exit, as I had a plan that to get to Burger King for 25c coffee that it'd be easier/less traffic to go a different way, then I changed my mind later and decided that route would be less efficient, and to try going on 91 for a minute as it'd put me directly at Burger King. So I went on the northbound, but then I realized I messed up....hard. I ended up in another town MUCH further away from my destination. To try to save like 2-3 miles of driving, I ended up having to go like 10+ extra miles, and wasted like 45 minutes. I was running low on gas, too, and my idiot light was on, and I had to stop and use my last bit of money on $3 worth of gas to try to keep the idiot light happy.

All this stemmed from my changing plans. I hate this. I make plans and can't stick to them. I originally wanted to shower at the gym, and before/after grab some coffee and maybe some stupid calories from Burger King, and get to the gym at 7something. My alarm didn't go off on my phone as I set it wrong, and I woke up at like 7:30, and felt all lethargic and didn't get out of bed til like 7:40. So I decided to shower at home, instead of sticking to my original plan. At home I only had like some instant coffee instead, not much caffeine or calories. Got to my appointment reasonably well, and this all happened on the way home. I just CANNOT cope with changing plans, I always get extremely messed up and end up doing ridiculous s**t like what happened today. If I make a plan I have to stick to it, even if it's not the greatest plan, just because thinking without planning f***s me all up.

I hate my NVLD. I f*****g hate it. I don't even give a s**t about the social complications. I just wish I could drive places I've not memorized the routes to exactly by driving the exact route 100x and not get lost as f**k. f**k f**k f**k. This type of s**t happens at least weekly when I try driving anywhere new. I remember one time I dropped my mom off at the hospital and I got lost and drove like 150 miles that whole day lost, as first I tried to recalculate routes based on signs/etc, and got lost. Then I finally just went home (like 15 miles from start) and could only do the route from home as that's the way I memorized it. I feel like such a f*****g idiot. I hate this. I hate this all. I don't get why God's cursed me with this.

Ouch, that sounds stressful, I can definitely relate.

A bit OT, but I wanted to ask about the bit about the need for fast food for fitness. I heard that moderate (occasional?) consumptions of BKs and McDucks and whatnot are actually quite good for bodybuilders.

Man I completely relate to what you're saying. Currently my trouble is at work where I've been assigned an entirely new job with new duties and a TON of stuff that needs to get done, being told 'it will take you about a month to get a routine down' and my mind screams "I NEED A F**King ROUTINE NOW!! !" Not a MONTH from now ffffssss.

Driving places: basically I do eventually memorize numerous routes but really learning things on the fly is not my forte'.

Bonus: Do you have a GPS? I'm seriously considering buying one of those. I get lost in the city I have lived in for almost a decade... (sigh) All I have to do is take a detour or another exit and I can't get home until I'm on a familiar road... so I totally know what you mean. And it is seriously frustrating.

I don't really know, to be honest. I've just found it's really calorically dense, it's processed, but calorically dense. Obviously there's the infamous Michael Phelps diet. I know another male skater like myself (who doesn't lift, but skates like at least 2 hours a day) who literally eats McDonalds like everyday and is pretty lean. I feel like I have a ton of energy with fast food, probably because it digests fast and has tons of calories. Who knows. I'll probably just start eating entire boxes of pasta or something and see wtf happens. Lots of Olympic athletes say they eat McDonalds, too. The women seem to have to eat "cleaner" but the men not as much.

Anyway, it's not even driving. In high school I got lost in the woods and ended up having to call my father to get me out miles away where I ended up at the nearest road. Even a couple months ago I got lost in the woods like this, too. 6-7 miles out of the way, ended up going to my first sign of people, some random restaurant, waited in there and called my mom. The only way I got there even was I used google maps on my phone. God knows where I'd be without that. To be fair, I could GPS *everything* but it gets impractical when I do know a route, just any minutia of plans change, I'm screwed. Like all the roads today, I'd driven on before at one point. I just couldn't connect them together efficiently into an efficient route, so in that sense I wasn't really "lost" either, in that for most people lost equals not knowing where you are, and I knew where I was, just I couldn't connect it all together. I even get lost as hell playing Fallout sometimes. Spend hours at a time in that game, just lost. Even as a kid I'd get lost playing Zelda.

Happened to me too once when I took my brother to get his motorcycle. Luckily, I had my petrol fund in the car.

OT: I hear John Cena eats McDees for half of his meals a week.

I hear you, I borrowed a trailer once and had some come with me to get it, I had to return it later that day and spent 1/2 an hour driveing in circles trying to find the place that was not to far away from the main road. All it took was some slight darkness, about 10 hours and that I forgot to set the GPS cordinates when I was there, there was a church nearby however I forgot what it was called exactly, I forgot the road names, more so the whole north and south thing, GPS was confusing becouse of the different names belonging to the same roads/highways and the jogs, some intersetions had been converted to roundabouts or rejiged and I could not figure it out much at all so the inacturate GPS got put away. forgot the name of the busesness located in the property. Even worse was that when I missed a turn finding a place to turn around a 14' car trailer at night is kinda hard. So frustrating, I felt like the most stupid person ever.

I used to get lost like that... Things will get better with experience and time...

In the mean time, get a smart phone with a GPS app.