East? West? North? South? If my fingernails were being pulled out with pliers I could not come up with the correct response to, “In which direction are you going?” Case in point . . .

One Sunday the Clueless Duo (otherwise known as the “C.D.”) hatched the bright idea to watch the sunrise on the ocean from the Causeway. Meeting each other in the darkness before dawn was the easy part. More challenging was deciding in which direction the sun was actually rising! I sadly kid you not. We sat in the vehicle positioned with perfect accuracy to view the sun rising in the West. Fortunately for us, the “Duh” factor kicked in time to turn around and catch the phenomenon for which we’d come. This was, by the way, spectacular! An adventure I highly recommend . . .

Fast forwarding to another memorable Sunday, the “C.D.” decided to find the way to Albrook Mall. Three rounds trips over the Bridge of the Americas later, we arrived there. I swear by all that is Holy that this is true. Embarrassing, but the Gospel truth. My friend and I may be directionally “challenged”, but what we lack in built-in compass skills we make up for in our superior abilities to laugh at ourselves, and most anything else we deem hysterically funny. This can include finding each other bucking oncoming traffic on one-way streets, or attempting to see a particular movie on three different occasions that for one reason or another was not to be our destiny. Life is far too short not to laugh at it all . . .

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Copyright 2007 by Wary Bradshaw for Panama-Guide.com.
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