An 81-year old Australian lost his way on a regular drive to the newspaper shop and ended up almost 600km away from where he started. In what was a usual trip to the buy the day’s newspaper, Eric Steward took the wrong turn and called for help from the Victoria state police after eight hours. Police officer Clayton Smith said that Mr Steward came up to him at a service station saying that he was lost. On asking why hadn’t he stopped for help earlier, added officer Smith, Mr Steward just said “‘I just like to drive”.
Just because he “liked to drive”, the 81-year old kept driving on for eight hours, without a satellite navigation system, uncertain of where he was. Though he didn’t know where he was going, Mr Steward said that he knew he was “somewhere” and that “with a bit of luck” he would eventually find his wife again. With age to vouch for him, Mr Steward was rather unconcerned about the entire episode.
Had a satellite navigation system been installed in the car, the 81-year old would never have been lost in the first place. When asked why he hadn’t done so, Mr Steward simply asked, “Why would you want one of those? You cannot get lost. There’s no fun in that.”
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