Brother makes sister's car ride 3.5 hours long instead of 90 minutes after she chastises him for giving directions: 'You can't help people who don't want help'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Jan 16, 2025 4:00 PM EST

Road trips with family members are not always as great as they sound. That is unless you naturally anticipate that family road trips will inevitably end in disaster. In that case, congratulations on managing your expectations because those expectations will likely be met and then some. 

Now, your mileage may vary (see what I did there?), but personally, I find that being in a car with family as a fully grown adult naturally brings back old memories (and not always the good ones). Sure, you might put on music you all listened to in the car back in the day, but as soon as someone makes a wrong turn, watch out because everyone is going to start blaming each other. 

Sometimes, old arguments that you don't even remember resurface, as do comments made over ten years ago that you suddenly realize you still resent. It all can come up to the surface during those car rides, especially if they end up longer than anticipated.

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  • Here, we have a man who was only fully obsessed with maps and directions, which proved to be useful when navigating complicated routes on the road. His sister, however, did not want to be told what to do. Our guess is there is some unresolved conflict from their younger days that most definitely was at play here…

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    When I was younger around a decade ago, I used to love two things. Cars and roads. Still to this day I love cars, but the way I loved roads was through maps. My favorite activity when I was bored was to go on the maps app and look at the highways that surrounded my area.
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    My oldest sister at the time was the only sibling of mine who had a license. One summer day, she was bored and decided to take me and her boyfriend to an amusement park an hour and a half away from home. The story begins.
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    on the way back. My father needed the car at the car dealership as it was scheduled to have routine maintenance done the next morning. My father sent her the address of the dealership and requested that she drop the car off, and he will go and pick us up at the dealer.
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    Now that the context is out of the way, here is where my sister made a mistake. She typed in the address, and clicked on the nearest place with that road. The issue is that the nearest place with that road was a town going an hour in the opposite direction.
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  • Regardless, circumstances backfired in a major way once the brother decided to maliciously comply with his sister's demands, thereby making their 90-minute trip a three-and-a-half-hour saga.

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    She gets onto a road I will call State Route 100. This intersects with Interstate 1, which we were supposed to get onto. When she passes the highway, this following interaction ensues
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    Me- "You were supposed to make that right." Her- "That's not what the map says." 5 minutes later, I say again.
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    Me- "We are heading in the wrong direction, this does not go home." Her- "Maybe It's an alternate route that's faster?" Me- "I don't think a road going in the opposite direction is faste-"
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    (she cut me off) Her, now annoyed- "Listen I'm going to focus on what the map says, not on you. Just stop already."
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    And with that, I followed her instruction. After all, why would I complain on going on a road I have never been on. From what I remember after that, we stopped for gas about half an hour in. My sister was still convinced we were going in the right direction, but why should I correct her? She is listening to the map after all.
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    The Fallout: We hit an expressway and my sister is convinced we made it home and is pleased with herself. This was until an overhead sign said "Town B Regional Airport, 1 Mile."
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    At this point, my sister realized her mistake. She starts freaking out and saying "I didn't know this road went here? I was following the map! ', why didn't you tell me we were going the wrong way?"
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    I was scared of her getting mad at me, so I just said "After you told me to stop I just stopped paying attention to where you were going."
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    She eventually pulled into a gas station, and saw where she set her GPS to. After correcting her mistake, we head the opposite direction, although the car ride was rather silent.
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    We eventually see signs for the amusement park we started at, because she had to turn left at the road I originally told her to turn at.
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    And that is how I turned a drive supposed to be an hour and a half into a three and a half hour journey. Years have passed since this happened, and I told my father who thought it was hysterical. I often consider telling my sister, but we sadly rarely speak anymore. Thank you for reading! Have a happy new year!
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  • Several members of the community reacted with their hot takes about the brother's behavior and their own road trips gone wrong. 

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    Pass-Popcorn My son also loves cars, roads, and maps. Back in the early days of gps, before it was on our phones, we quickly learned to trust him over Garmin.
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    I still clearly remember the second time we traveled to a place two hours from our home. When we got to the road we were going to, GPS told us to turn left onto it, he told us to turn right. Yeah, he was
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    right. His grandma lived 3 states away and he could recite every road name/number we took to get there, including if they were US or state routes. You can't help people who don't want help.
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    xPandemiax Reminds me of an experience | had with my sister. It was winter and we were running late so my sister didn't have time to fully scrap the ice off the windshield and just gave herself a spot to see
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    forward out of. Said the rest would melt off. She is reversing to get out of the driveway and for a split second I can see that we are reversing into a tree. Of course I tell her but she ignores me. I
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    repeat what I said more urgently and she snaps to shut up so I zipped it. Second later... BAM! Me - "I told you so".
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