What could be worse than having a really bad day, complete with a couple of good size mistakes, only to have it memorialized in popular culture! That's exactly what happened to Douglas Corrigan, later nicknamed Wrong Way, in 1938. Corrigan made a transcontinental plane trip from California to New York. He was supposed to return to California on July 17th, but instead ended up in Ireland! He later blamed the error on his navigational equipment and a dense layer of heavy clouds that obscured his landmarks, but the damage was done. From that day forward, the name Wrong Way Corrigan is often applied to anyone who has poor directional abilities. So today take heart. Even when the GPS tells you to go in one direction, and you go the opposite way, you're not alone!
Thursday, July 16, 2009
July 17 - Wrong Way Corrigan Day
What could be worse than having a really bad day, complete with a couple of good size mistakes, only to have it memorialized in popular culture! That's exactly what happened to Douglas Corrigan, later nicknamed Wrong Way, in 1938. Corrigan made a transcontinental plane trip from California to New York. He was supposed to return to California on July 17th, but instead ended up in Ireland! He later blamed the error on his navigational equipment and a dense layer of heavy clouds that obscured his landmarks, but the damage was done. From that day forward, the name Wrong Way Corrigan is often applied to anyone who has poor directional abilities. So today take heart. Even when the GPS tells you to go in one direction, and you go the opposite way, you're not alone!
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