What on Earth Have I Done? by Robert Fulghum

Author:Robert Fulghum [Fulghum, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780312365509
Amazon: 0312365500
Publisher: Griffin
Published: 2008-10-14T00:00:00+00:00

47

Being There

Crete. Spring. The fine kind of day that called me to take the long way home from a shopping trip to the nearby town of Chania. Away from the seaside road, up through the coastal hills, on through a rocky gorge to the village of Vrissos, and all the way up to the edge of the mountain snow. The road was new and relentlessly switch-backed on a bearing farther east instead of west. Not a way home for me.

I was lost. On a road that was not on my map.

Coming to a small village I stopped across the road from an old man leading an old goat—(or an old goat leading an old man—it was hard to tell who was in charge or if it mattered to the man or goat).

I got out of the car and called across to the old man:

“Poo ee-meh?” (“Where am I?”)

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The old man and the old goat considered me with puzzled amusement: “What kind of question is that?” Kindly, slowly, as if speaking to a child or an adult with mental limitations, the man pointed to where I stood and said:

“Leepon, eh-kee.” (“Well, you are over there.”)

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