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SheeEttin t1_j9fx85k wrote

Sounds like perfectly good directions to me. Be glad they're not referencing things that aren't there any more.

Go down past where the Sears used to be, turn left after the house where the Johnsons used to live, if you see the spot where the rusty old trailer was, you've gone too far.

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Yankee_Farmer t1_j9ilewh wrote

The police desk Sergeant used to do that to the new guys fresh from the Academy, confident in their knowledge of all things.

"Investigate a suspicious car at Mooney's Garage." Where's that Sarge?

"Take a left and head east. Go past Kinkles Pond, and take the first left. Left again at the stop sign, then around Demoriak's Corner, then pull into the first parking lot on your right. Mooney's Garage is the next building."

First, none of those people have been alive since 1955. Second, he's just given you directions back to where you started, shy of 50 feet.

"The Exxon Station?! That I was across the street from?! There are no cars there at all!"

"Heh heh."

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akmjolnir t1_j9jofpx wrote

If you've ever been in Lempster you'd know that the directions given to OP could be 9000 different locations. Half those roads are probably muddy pits right about now.

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