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You see that dewey? That's air!!
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. >

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 >

My son in law did this to my daughter (left her at a store) when he was out with her and his buddy. They jumped in the car, took off, and were a couple miles away when the friend turned around to ask my daughter a question (she had been stretched out across the backseat) and he said "Umm....either she is hiding somehow...or you are in a lot of trouble." Son in law actually made it back to store before my daughter noticed, and would have gotten away with it, but his buddy ratted him out (with a "but I told him we needed to go back and get you"). >

It happened to my brother in law as a kid. His family and extended family were traveling in two cars and stopped at a rest area where they all got out. When they left they all assumed he was in the other car and left him for hours before they realized and made it back to him. It was really traumatic for him, and when we go on trips he has a rule that everyone has to stay in the car they were first riding in. We haven’t left a kid behind yet. Thanks Uncle Jamie! >

My grand parents did that with my uncle when shopping. He was always quiet so they didn’t notice 1/4 missing for a few miles. Same happened when he fell out of the car going around a roundabout. Only the best child safety in the 70s >

He got took by the void and your meemaw didn't bat an eye 💀 >

*tooken >

Thailand man >

Thailander
(/s just in case) >

There can only be one >

HE LEFT HER TO PEE ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD IN A JUNGLE. Is everyone else going to just glaze over the fact that its a JUNGLE
EDIT to add, Thailand has the largest population of Indochinese Tigers.
EDIT 2 : I'm not a westerner who has never been to the Jungle, I am a Vietnamese person from Tra Vinh, Vietnam.  Well at least that is the closest town (which wasn't really built up til the last 15 years) to the village my family lives in. Kinda hard to give 6 stick huts their own town name
EDIT 3: The only two commenters who live remotely near or in thailand, One is from Malaysia, a country much more developed than thailand claiming that Thailand is in fact as developed as them despite Malaysia being ranked 16 places a head in developed countries list, or the westerner who moved to Thailand and denies the existence of villages such as Pa Deng because Thailand is developed and has roads so villages that don't have paved roads, power, etc don't exist because he hasn't seem them. >


He parked his car by the roadside at 3 am to take a quick toilet break.
She walked about 20 km (approximately 12.4 miles) and reached the district of Kabin Buri by 5 am. 

10 kilometres per hour (9 minutes a mile for Americans) doesn't suggest a particularly challenging environment. 
Even if it took her three hours and not the reported two, that's pretty good pace. >

Some cursory googling shows 12 km/hr as world-class racewalking pace for women, so 10 km/hr on a shit road would be very impressive. Like you say, even 2/3 of that pace would be hustling. >

At what point does race walking become jogging or running? >

I think when you have no feet on the ground at any point (always at least one point of contact to be "walking").
At least this is from my memory of Malcolm in the Middle from like 20 years ago.