Chapter Two A, J, M Go to the City

Alejandra, Jovana and Mariana go the City.

A fictional Account!

Due to a request for anomynity, all names have been changed in this chapter. The characters are not based on actual people, the events are not based on any actual historical facts, thereby protecting the innocent writer. It's just a story...read nothing more into it. A fictional made-up story. Got it? Got it!

Alejandra and Jovanna decide to go to the city.
Pretty spur of the moment I must say...they just up and went.
To find beads.

They asked Mariana to accompany them (not the mother of Alejandra, as this story is fictional...don't forget!) Did Alejandra and Jovana remember things like glasses, keys, purses etc.? I believe they did! Off they went only having to go back home once to get a wallet with real money in it for the bridge.
(no actual bridge is being mentioned in this piece of fiction...they could be anywhere, it could be the Topeka River Bridge over the Kansas River before it plunged into oblivion.)

Off they went to the city, wallets, purses, glasses and keys in hand, in car. Alejandra drove. Jovana backseat drove. When they picked up Mariana, she backseat drove as well.

Backseat driving is generally a part of these adventures. The oh, so polite power struggle, like cats with driving gloves on over their claws! (what? Is that a mixed metaphor or just a messed metaphor? Where is the language teacher now? When I really need her, Mariana!)

Sometimes Jovana and Mariana would shout out in unison, "Turn right on O'Farrell, I mean left!" In stereo.

(by the way, there certainly are streets named O'Farrell in many cities!)

Alejandra, being the strong young woman she is, ignored them both.
Just as well, going straight was in the cards.

Being mistaken has never stopped Jovana from giving helpful directions to the driver. She's been known to instruct, "Take a left here, no not THAT left, the other left!"

She's been told to use the easy hand rule: hold your hands out in front of you. Then determine which hand one creates a fairly good representation of the letter "L" for the direction "left" in the English language or "a la izquierda en Español".

This is supposed to help figure out which hand is which? I say not! SOME people hold out their hands, palms up! Then the "L" is on the other left!

Hmmmph...how does confusion help in this instance!?

Think about this: the upcoming turn is imminent!

Does the backseat driver have time to ponder which hand being held up looks like the letter "L"?

Does the backseat driver have time to wonder how does this direction thing even works?

Because, I say to myself, "Why does my right look like it's on the left to the person facing me? Why does my left work when I'm turned around backwards so the SAME hand is now facing East rather than West. Does this make any sense to the literate rational people in The City by the Bay!!?"

(Please do not surmise that this is an actual city. Many cities lie on a coast with bays encircling, and after all, this is a FICTIONAL account!)

Somehow the trio made it into a parking garage, surprisingly the very garage they were searching for, which came upon them very suddenly! And parking was free! Somehow. Who remembered where the garage was once they got to shopping for beads? Nobody, but someone remembered the 1st store they peeked into so they'd wing it on the way back.

Perusing the goods, they shopped. Alejandra found gorgeous strings of glittering beads for her jewelry project. Mariana chose her treasure carefully. Jovana found the cutest multi-hinged metallic goldfish and lovely floss for a necklace project which never came to fruititian, but it's around here somewhere.

Zooming up, down and around hills, over bridges and out to the countryside (location changed) they finally got home safe, sound, exhausted and amazed at their traveling expertise!

Big doings in the city, traveling as if they were courageous tourists living hours and hours away, instead of 45 minutes without traffic. Alejandra, Jovana and Mariana agreed to another trip to the big city in the near future, after they got good and rested.