Hard Wood

After being in the new house for a few days, Barb legs and feet were killing her.  She was cursing the hard wood floors.  She was even madder when she was talking to the neighbour and he told her that the previous owner had taken out brand new carpet to put in the hard wood floor.  Barb wanted the carpet back.

Telephone Jack

The next day back at The Villages it was my job to set up the internet and the phone.  We have a DSL service which runs through the telephone lines.  So the first thing I had to find was the telephone jack.  Barb and I searched the house and couldn't find it.  Then Barb found this little box painted over on the floor near the couch.  I had looked at it before but couldn't find any place to put the phone cord.  It looked really sketchy because there were wires hanging out of it.  Barb moved a little door on the box and said there might be something inside it.  I looked in and found the plug to put the telephone cord in.  I put the telephone plug into the jack and then into the router and then hooked the phone to the router and after it ran through the set up it all worked great.  We would have looked really stupid calling our internet service provider to tell them we didn't have a telephone jack.

Car Alarm

We packed all of our stuff from Daphne's house in the van and then started back to The Villages.  We decided to stop at the Racetrack gas station to fill up.  First we couldn't find where to put the gas nozzle.  Barb found it right because the driver's door.  I was very happy that she hadn't just gone in to the gas station like she usual does and left me to fill up the van.  Then after I filled up the van and drove over to park it in front of the station and Barb came out and asked if we should just have a hotdog at the station.  I said okay and got out of the van and the bell started ringing telling me I left the keys in the ignition.  So I reached in the van to get the cars and hit the car alarm.  Then I panicked and got back in the van and started the van and the car alarm went off and I took out the keys and we went in to get a hotdog.  No one at the gas station seemed fazed that I was looking like an idiot.

Sneaky

By the time we got to Avon Park it was dark and the gates of the park were closed.  We didn't know the pass code.  So we thought we wouldn't be able to get in.  As we were driving up to the gate there was a car in front of us.  We rushed up behind them and when the gate up for them we snuck in after them.  We were sneaky.

Wrong Way

We were leaving our park and getting on Highway 27.  Barb asked me if she turned left or right.  I said left and she said right but she also said that if there were two ways to go she always seemed to go the wrong way.  So we turned left because she said I had such a good sense of directions.  We were very happy as we were driving past some construction on the other side of the road and the cars were backed up really far.

Then after about 20 minutes I noticed that we were on Highway 27 North and we should be on Highway 27 South.  So we turned around and had to go through the construction that we had passed before we got back to our wrong turn.  Barb no longer trusted my sense of direction.

Almost Forgot Sewing Bag

The next day we went to pick up a U-Haul van and then we drove the car home and were heading to Avon Park.  I asked Barb if we should bring the maps.  She asked me if we really needed them.  I said we should probably bring them.  Then when I went to the car I noticed Barb's sewing bag on the passenger side floor.  I asked Barb if she wanted to bring her sewing bag and she screamed because she did.  She had all of our keys in the sewing bag.  The keys for Daphne's house the keys for our old house and we could have driven all the way there and found that we couldn't get in to any of the houses.

Backroads

We were following Betsy our GSP when we got off the I-75 and onto US 27 to The Villages but we weren't heading to our house we were heading to Barb's friend Nancy's house because the water was not working at our house.  For some reason, Betsy sent us on these back roads through some sketchy farm land that looked like hillbilly land.  Then we found that the road that were on was under construction and closed.  We had missed the detour.  So we turned around and took the first road we could and Betsy was telling us over and over to do a U-Turn but we ignored her and eventually came out at The Villages and arrived at Nancy's house at midnight after driving for 21 hours.