Where Am I?

Gotta share this funny thing that happened yesterday. I have been giggling every time I think about it.

While working at the computer yesterday afternoon, I noticed a hunter walking down the road. As soon as I saw him, my first thought was that he was lost. It could have been the puzzled look on his face that gave him away. About five minutes later, I heard a knock on my door. I was almost certain who I would see on the other side of the door.

I live on the corner of a hard-surfaced road and a graveled road. The hunter wanted to know where the hard-surfaced road went. After we talked a few minutes, he admitted that he was totally lost. It was hard on him to admit that. (giggle)

After more discussion, I figured out the general area where he had parked his car that morning. Yesterday was a very dark, cold, wet day and it was foggy on the mountain tops. It was several miles back up the mountain to his car, so I offered to drive him. It would have been dark by the time he walked back.

During the drive, he told me more about how he got lost. He had started out on the other side of the mountain. He had shot at a deer. Because he thought he had wounded it, he followed it into the woods. He thought he must have gotten turned around in the fog. He walked for several hours before he came out on the graveled road that I live on. If he had turned left on the road, he would have come to an intersection he would have recognized and not too far from his car, but he turned right. (Some of this he figured out as he started recognizing landmarks.)

The part that keeps me giggling is what he said when I left him at his car. He complained about not having a productive day. I said he at least had a good story to tell. He said, "I'm not gonna tell anybody. You and I are the only ones that are ever going to know about this." He was totally embarrassed that he had gotten lost, even though it was perfectly understandable how it had happened.

He is safe. We never exchanged names. So even though I am "telling" a lot of people, no one will know who he is.