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I actually read it in the dark way as well but now I see both sides, which is why I was hoping op would speak up haha
At the Oregon Trail Museum there are copies of people's journals: Today we forgot to check on Susan before we started out. When we stopped for the day, the folks who picked her up brought her by. >

Phew, thank God she didnt board the wrong wagon into Canada. >

What’s this reference? I can remember it but can’t place it lol >

Its a "kid gets on the wrong bus" reference. >

And is that a reference to something specific, or? >

Almost happened to me once. Long story short, I was walking out to what I believed was my plane in Nairobi (or Kampala? Can't remember, it was a while ago) and only through casual conversation with my seat neighbour did it transpire that I was headed towards the wrong continent. >

Australia? >

I honestly can't remember. The story grows vaguer with each retelling. Age – the final frontier.
In any case, I actually managed to get off the plane before it got off the ground, so I never actually went. A more adventurous part of me regret that I didn't simply shut up and let destiny take me for a ride. >

Most bullshit I've ever heard in my LIFE. Tell us the story. >

That actually happened about forty years ago to my parents' best friends.
The couple were driving back from the beach at night. She was sleeping in the back seat. He stopped for gas and a bathroom break, returned to the car and drove away.
He didn't realize that his wife had, in his absence, gone to the bathroom as well. So he hadn't bothered to look.
Two hours later, he pulls into the driveway, looks in the back seat and freaks out. Good thing that, five minutes later, a strange car pulls into the driveway and his wife gets out.
It took him years to live that down.
EDIT: For clarity's sake, she got a ride with another gas station customer who was driving the same direction. >


It took him years to live that down.

It's hilarious that the wife was blameless in this situation. >

I can’t believe she got into a car with a stranger to drive two hours away, that she met at a gas station. And just gets out of the car without letting him know? Totally his fault he was letting her sleep.
This is why serial killers were so prolific back then. >


And just gets out of the car without letting him know?

why are we assuming she didn't get out of the car after he was already gone. wtf >

Right. So it’s night, dark out, with those giant bench seats they had back in the 80s and no giant lights like we have today everywhere — probably a blanket or pile of towels in the back seat too. She woke up, wandered off. Then spent 40 years blaming him because she didn’t communicate and he assumed a peacefully sleeping person wouldn’t want to be interrupted.
I bet every single man she brought that story up to offered the husband a sly smirk afterwards. Dumb, dumb thing to blame on someone else. >

I did not see any comments from op mentioning the wife blaming the husband, why are you making that assumption?
It's just the husband feeling guilty about it. >

You’re both taking “live that down” differently, it depends on how op meant it. >

It was presented anecdotally, I doubt they turned dark on the last line.