Students remember vacation
horror stories
Jeff
Lowe
Staff Writer
While driving at breaking speeds along the Autobahn
in Germany during her Spring Break trip, the student realized she
was following the wrong person.
As Angie King, a graduate of the School of Liberal
Arts, followed her friend's car through Germany, another car, identical
to her friend's, pulled in front of her. Instead of following the
car full of her friends, King started following the wrong car. King
followed the wrong car all the way off the Autobahn.
"(Then) we realized that it was the wrong car
and we all started freaking out," King said.
King drove to a gas station and tried to get
directions, but she didn’t know how to speak German.
Finally, King had to use a cell phone call to
her friends. After two hours, they finally found each other.
While it took King two hours to find her friends
in Germany, it took Chris Hernandez, a graduate student in the School
of Technology, two hours to find his girlfriend at the airport.
Hernandez, who went to visit his girlfriend in
Utah during Spring Break, arrived at the Salt Lake City Airport only
to find that there was no one there to meet him.
Hernandez' girlfriend was nowhere to be found.
Considering this, he decided to look for her, but ended up waiting
around the airport until he heard a page from the loudspeaker.
"Finally I heard (my girlfriend's) dad trying
to page me," Hernandez said.
It turned out that his girlfriend, who lives
an hour away and had to travel through some mountainous terrain to
get to the airport, had run her car off the road and couldn't meet
her boyfriend.
"I was pretty annoyed until I found out what
happened," Hernandez said.
