Posted on 02/22/2026 1:02:21 PM PST by dynachrome
The gold medal hopes of one pair of U.S. athletes were dashed this week, as the American women's bobsled team came in last place after stopping to ask for directions.
Elana Meyers Taylor and Jadin O'Brien, competing in the 2-Woman Bobsled event, were considered strong contenders to reach the podium but suffered a shocking fall in the standings after briefly stopping during the middle of their run to ask for directions to the finish line.
"They just wanted to make sure," one spectator said. "They were given clear directions before the competition… and a map… but they ended up not knowing where they were and decided to stop to ask for directions. They were on pace to challenge for the top spot on the leaderboard, but unfortunately, that stop added an extra 15 seconds to their time and landed them in dead last."
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> And at night in West Virginia did you knock on someone’s door and ask directions? <
Ha, no. I have great respect for hill folk with shotguns.
What clued me in was a big road sign that said “Welcome to West Virginia!” So I just turned around and headed back north. I did make it to Pittsburgh, eventually.
Your brother is a lawyer? send him this.
A lawyer who had just undergone surgery emerges from anesthesia and notices that the room is dark. “Nurse, why are all the blinds drawn?”
And the nurse says, “There’s a big fire across the street and we didn’t want you to wake up and think the operation was a failure.”
An attorney was undergoing surgery and was awakened by a nurse who told him “I’m afraid the surgery was not successful and you will die very soon. Would you like a priest to administer Last Rites?”
The attorney responded “Hell no. I want a Malpractice attorney. You people are paying for my next yacht”.
Batteries went dead on their Apple Maps?
A related GPS story. A couple of years ago I wanted to go to Morgantown, West Virginia for a football game. So I set my GPS to that destination, and picked the quickest route option.
For some reason my GPS then defaulted to the shortest route, as the crow flies. I spent an hour on the gravel backroads of West Virginia before I realized that my GPS had betrayed me.
I was disappointed they didn’t have some airborne jumps and loop-the-loops. Maybe next time.
Lololol!!!!!
And of course they forgot to release the parking brake.
> My motto was, “I don’t get lost. I just make wrong turns.”
Passenger 1: Hey where are we?
Passenger 2: Oh My God we’re lost!!
Driver (me): We’re not lost. We’re right here.
I figured, they did not fill the gas tank, on the bobsled and they ran out of gas.
Thank God they aren’t required to parallel park their sled
You’ve never been lost until you’ve been lost going Mach 3.
-blackbird pilot.
That’s why I’ve always had a compass in the car.
I’m never lost I just don’t know how to get where I want to be.
You can still get paper TripTiks.
I grew up in coastal NC with Mom’s family in middle TN.
Every summer we would go to TN.
I would get the free road map at the first gas station and follow it on the trip.
I learned to read a road map about the same age that I learned to read.
Fix the sport. It shoukdn’t take THAT long.
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