From The Past: August 17, 2007

Thursday, Ashley brought home an invitation to a classmate’s birthday party which will be held this Saturday. Normally I would say no on this short notice, but the school year only started Monday and she just met this person, so I figured what the heck, I’ll try to accommodate her even though we have things to do.

As I looked at the street name and subdivision name, I didn’t recognize it. Since there are many new neighborhoods popping up all over Winchester, I figured this was one I had not heard of. I decided to Google it. The closest place to this address was somewhere in Tennessee. No good.

Then I tried Yahoo! Maps. I typed the address in exactly as the child had it written, then typed in “Winchester, KY” and clicked the GO button. Still no luck.

At this point, I emailed a great friend and historian and asked her if she knew where this place was located.

She suggested I try MapQuest.

I tried. Still, no luck.

So, I told Ashley this morning she needed to get written directions from this person because I had no clue where it was.

*Skip to this afternoon*

I asked Ashley if she had the written directions and she said, “No because this person lives in ‘such-and-such’ county.”

Yes, the child lives in a different county, but the card never stated this anywhere. When I did another search for it once I had the correct county, I found that the child had spelled the street name incorrectly! No wonder I never had any results on Google!

* Parents: If your child cannot correctly spell his/her street name at the age of eleven or at any age, it would be appropriate for you to make out the invitations. Also, if you live in a different county than the county where your child attends school, it would be nice to state that on the invitations.

Whew!