Birthday Party in Yale
Posted 07-20-2014 at 11:54 AM by Rubi3
Yesterday, I drove to Yale OK from Muskogee, thinking I would find Underwood Rd easily, but didn't see a sign. Decided to fuel up my car and asked the lady about Underwood Rd. Looking puzzled she finally decided it was that way, pointing east. So I drove 3 blocks that way and didn't see it. Yale is barely more than 1200 population, so if I went one more block I'd be out-of-town. I turned onto the next street and it was handy to stop and ask a man in a parked SUV.
"I'm looking for Underwood Rd. Could you tell me where it is?"
"I have no idea, but I'll look it up." He had a smart phone and keyed in the address. As it happens it is out-of-town about 2 blocks. The woman at the gas station had also tried to make a call for me on my cell phone, but was unsuccessful. The keys on my phone cause me problems. So I asked the man to key in the number for me. Instead he used his smart phone and when it began ringing handed me his phone. Ah, contact!
Informing my granddaughter I would be seeing her in person in a few minutes, I hung up, thanked the man and looked further for Underwood Rd. Had someone (my granddaughter) said it was also Cemetery Rd it would have been much easier. Only after passing Cemetery Rd did I see another sign saying Underwood Rd, so after driving half a mile to turn around, I was going south in the right direction on a very hilly dirt road and glad to finally be where I wanted to be.
Many years ago when my family and I drove into a town about the size of Yale in Northern Oklahoma, I think every person in that town knew who we were, why we were moving there and what we would be doing. I was just a surprise for Yale not to be the same.
"I'm looking for Underwood Rd. Could you tell me where it is?"
"I have no idea, but I'll look it up." He had a smart phone and keyed in the address. As it happens it is out-of-town about 2 blocks. The woman at the gas station had also tried to make a call for me on my cell phone, but was unsuccessful. The keys on my phone cause me problems. So I asked the man to key in the number for me. Instead he used his smart phone and when it began ringing handed me his phone. Ah, contact!
Informing my granddaughter I would be seeing her in person in a few minutes, I hung up, thanked the man and looked further for Underwood Rd. Had someone (my granddaughter) said it was also Cemetery Rd it would have been much easier. Only after passing Cemetery Rd did I see another sign saying Underwood Rd, so after driving half a mile to turn around, I was going south in the right direction on a very hilly dirt road and glad to finally be where I wanted to be.
Many years ago when my family and I drove into a town about the size of Yale in Northern Oklahoma, I think every person in that town knew who we were, why we were moving there and what we would be doing. I was just a surprise for Yale not to be the same.
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