Daniel is often the stoic one among us, but occasionally he has his hysterical moments. They are rare, but they always rattle me given how level-headed he tends to be. Driving out of state is one of his triggers.

“We’d just dropped off our daughter at college when the GPS lost its connection.

I sighed and pointed toward the upcoming exit. “She said to take the next exit. If the connection doesn’t pick back up we can maybe find a place with Wi-Fi and look ahead on the route.”

He grumbled something about “the fucking middle of nowhere,” and I laughed. When he took the next exit, I glanced his way, seeing how tense he was. This wasn’t going to be good.

At the end of the exit we were faced with a three-way split.

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