The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for August 03, 2023

Hope it wasn’t an im-portland trip

“Go west young man.”

Good thing he didn’t enter Portland, Tipperary County, Ireland, or Portland, Victoria Region Australia.

Portland OR was named after Portland ME after an official from there won a coin toss with an official from Boston. I think it’s time to change the name to Boston OR to mask its ruined reputation.

Well who hasn’t done that? After a few thousand miles you check. It happens

……and paid no attention the the directional arrow???

Only Brutus would mistake Oregon for Maine.

I thought he was going to say he forgot to specify Oregon or Maine, and the GPS picked the wrong one…

At least some Texas cop didn’t pull you over at gun point for putting in the wrong state.

Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin

Pick a Portland, any Portland

What business trip out of state makes you drive.

Then Brutus lives on East Coast.

Almost as bad as entering Newark. Take your pick of direction.

And then there are all the Springflields.

I’ve been planning our trip to the US, looking at the route to take to different cities to see. You forget just how big the place is. A trip from one of the cities I want to visit to another takes 5 hours driving. Yikes!

I worked at a 24-hour gas station in the middle of Missouri, and a guy came in who said he was from Pennsylvania and was headed to Mississippi. He was not happy to find out he missed a turn and now had to back-track for 2 hours to get to it.

Brutus, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your GPS must be on the fritz if it can’t tell Portland, Maine from Portland, Oregon.

So much for that lobster dinner on the expense account. I hope Veeblfester doesn’t notice all those extra miles you drove.

whoops, maybe the GPS stands for “getting past stop.” :D

Better thanwanting to go to London, Ontario and ending up in England.

Good ole Brutus, doesn’t know if he is winding his butt or scratching his watch.

Nobody’s perfect Brutus .

Poor Brutus. Attention to detail is important my good fellow.

Only you, Brutus, only you.

Remember to turn right at Albuquerque…

Should have recognized his error a tad bit earlier though. His internal GPS of NOT following the Sun needs a readjustment it would seem.Glad the meeting went well though…..

Um you don’t know East from West ?

Just make sure that if you ever have to travel to Washington, you specify the correct one in the GPS since, according to WorldAtlas, there are 88 of them in the U.S.

Who knew there where two. Yes, I know there’s more than two, but Brutus.

That is so hilarious and so on brand for the Born Loser! So Brutus had no clue he was going in the exact opposite direction!!??

I went to see the movie sites tours in Hollywood. Turns out there are less of them in Florida.

Swedish couple who thought they were booking a trip to Rochester and Buffalo, NY, wound up in Minnesota. Rochester, MN is substantial enough to contain the Mayo Clinic, but Buffalo is rather smaller than the NY one.

I have no sense of direction at all, and my job required me to drive 3-7 days a week all over at least one county. Mostly, to houses, so side street to side street. The stories I could tell about getting lost and crossing county border lines and having to turn back. I also had to locate hospitals, schools, police departments, courthouses, all kinds of places. I never knew what I was going to walk into, not for sure.

He should be glad he didn’t enter Portland, England.

Never used GPS. If I did, I might have ended up in Galveston Bay, or worse yet, the Gulf.

Dismay overwhelmed him and he let out a firm ‘pshaw!’. After he made sure all the windows were up. Didn’t want anyone to think it was Road Rage.

I think the GPS is one of the more useful inventions to come out of all this technology that surrounds us — but my pet phrase is that you should never give up your brain to it. (That bit of brilliance came to me the first time I chose not to follow its instructions — to make a left turn into a river.)

Gee I’ve never seen the sun come up in the west!