Day 1010 Borderline

Pete and Kelli’s social distance day 60

16th May 2020

“We have to go and pick up something from Grand Rapids” Kelli announced, adding the Grand Rapids part rather sheepishly. I have no problem with that, although I give her grief more in fun than anything else. I trust her to select furniture that we can turn over quickly, and she knows what will sell.

She punched in the address on her GPS and we set off, stopping off to get fuel. The prices have steadily risen over the last few weeks to $1.90 an gallon, so all that cheap fuel has been exhausted.

We pulled out of the petrol station and headed off to get some garden edging that Kelli had ordered from Ace Hardware. There was a bit of confusion over the quantity that had been delivered, but that was quickly sorted out. We loaded the box full of edging into the back of the truck and pulled out of the car park.

I expected her to turn right, instead she turned left.

I looked at Kelli, the GPS lady was giving out directions, and Kelli was following the directions to the letter.

“Don’t we go in the other direction?” I inquired.

“It’s okay, it’s taking us to the highway this way”

What followed was a head scratching discussion on why we were going in a completely opposite direction. Okay we would hit the highway, but further down, and then we would eventually drive past the junction we would have reached, had we gone in the direction I thought we were going.

Anyway we hurtled along towards the big city, and found ourselves in a bland suburb, stopping outside this house that had the furniture piece in the driveway.

We decided to fit the edging around our flower borders. From my experience, I knew this needed careful planning to avoid an uneven mess. So we used a length of 4×2 to set the height and straightness, and it worked a treat. Kelli always looks oddly as I try to explain my ideas, but when it looks like working she gets onboard.