My son is obsessed with my GPS. He insists on us entering the route, even if we are going 500 feet to our neighbors house around the corner. It can be maddening, at times. But, on the upside it has taught him addresses and the difference between right and left. Here in NJ we have jughandles.. you know, you turn right to go left. The GPS doesn't always get it right and it tells you make a left turn where you can't. He get's mad. He screams. He cries. Yet, if you turn off the GPS he gets even madder. We've worked on it and now when it tells us "wrong directions", we tell it "No, GPS - we won't make a left, we'll make a right". It works about 75% of the time, we get through it.
And then there are U-turns. U-turns flip the meltdown switch in my son's 7 year old autistic world to full-on. U-turns are the ultimate evil. We do not like U-turns. If I happen to miss a turn (which happens a lot with me, I'm not agreesive enough to qualify myself as a Jersey driver - I'm originally from upstate NY after all) and the GPS tells me to "when possible make a legal U-turn" my son loses it.
Today, the first day of summer break for us we of course had no milk. Baby sister was melting down because she wanted "something else to drink" - juice or some of her brother's Darifree wasn't cutting it. So, I loaded both kids into my mommymobile and headed out to the Welsh Farms Drive-thru. I do believe the Drive-Thru was created just for me - it saves me from attempting to take both kids in full-on meltdown mode safely in and out of the grocery store without one of them getting killed in the parking lot or peeing in a shopping cart. The drive-thru is a little slice of heaven that makes getting incidentals like a gallon of milk just oh so much easier. Except, today there was a car (with florida plates) taking FOREVER in the regular drive-thru lane that i use. I wasn't thinking and drove to the lane on the other side of the building - milk obtained but then we had to deal with a U-turn meltdown.
Bad Bad Bad.
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We live for the drive-thrus too. When Frog was younger, left hand turns were evil. We spent a lot of time going in circles just to avoid them on his really bad days. Today, shoes were evil. It work out ok droping Diva off at Dance Camp - I parked right in front of the studio and let Frog stay in the car. When it came time to pick her up there was no parking. We parked around the block and had to cut thru an ally - not a place for bare feet. We struck a deal: Frog would wear shoes, but would not walk in them. I carried my 6 year old to and from the dance studio. Who needs the gym?
We had a couple of drive through little stores where I grew up, but I haven't seen one in years!
Thanks for your comment on my blog the other day. We did see a lot of progress through the AIT (we did Dynamic Listening) and convinced our insurance to cover it as out-of-network OT.
Would that we had such a grand store as that in this town.
Reminds me of the time I tried to "order" a bunch of toilet paper and toothpaste at the Walgreen's drive-thru. Only for prescriptions. Bummer.
You could live here where the grocery stores close at 10:00 pm.
I miss the milkman. My Dad used to do that as a kid before school, his parents owned the place.
There is a place down the street that is a drive thru, basically for boozers, but my issue is that they do not have skim or soymilk. Luckily the little Korean store around corner has it, he buys it at Costco.
Up in Hunterdon county where my family lives they have circles, the flemington circle toward frenchtown can drive you nuts, there is another one near Mc Donalds and Dunkin Donuts (if still there) back in the day there was a roller rink in Flemington. I like the Ponderosa near the mall.
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