Plenty of ‘Misdirection Academy’ graduates on Bainbridge Island

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Plenty of ‘Misdirection Academy’ graduates on Bainbridge Island

Does this sound familiar to you? Distant friends call and say they’ll be in your area and want to visit. They ask for directions. Now, if I happen to be the one taking the call, I provide actual directions, including street names, approximate driving distances and helpful landmarks such as “the second off-ramp,” “the third stoplight” or “the fourth driveway on the left,” etc. But, if the woman who is my wife happens to be the one answering the p…