An old one but a good one.
I can’t remember who gave me this line, but I’ve tucked it away in my phrase bank just for a chance to use it. However, chance has not yet arrived, so I’ll force the issue and give it its own post.
I remember that this line came from someone looking for a remote area somewhere in West Virginia, and he got lost on one of those country roads where the road is nothing more than a solid black ribbon of blacktop coursing its way over the hills and along the creeks.
When he pulled alongside a man who was walking along the road, he asked the man for directions.
Now, asking people walking along the road for directions is often a risky undertaking. They will give you all sorts of weird and esoteric directions– usually in some reference where Mr. Brown’s barn used to be before it burned down.
Which…
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