Weird things you have accomplished

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163. Drove completely across someone's lawn in my van

I was only about 22 and a newly hired Teaching Assistant. I was invited to the house of the department chairman for a party welcoming the new T.A.s. His house was way up in the steep hills above Laguna Beach and I had never been there. The paved road I was following soon turned into dirt and then mud as it started to rain and nighttime came. Soon I was completely lost and there were no signs to guide me. The road at times skirted deep ravines and visibility was nil. After many frustrating minutes, I noticed the traction improving under the wheels of my van. I opened the door to see what I was driving on and I was surprised to find that it was grass. I kept going forward at a slow pace and soon I noticed the outlines of two houses between which I was driving. I passed the window of one house, no more than ten feet to my left and noticed a lighted kitchen. A women in the kitchen turned to look at me slowly driving by with a frozen look of shock, as though I might be driving a flying saucer. I eventually drove across the front yard and over the sidewalk and curb and found myself on a paved road with street lights. Somehow in the rain and darkness I had made my way into a new housing development and had driven completely across the backyard and side of a house and across the front lawn. I did manage to find my way out and make it to the party.