mental confusion while driving results in being badly lost

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i think i had some angelic intervention, after exhausting all the possible combinations of road direction at least once and possibly several times over, i eventually made it back to the freeway and then it was a straight shot to the dealership. a half hour late, GD it. then i had 2 hours [until dark] to cool my heels.

You seem to take being late very seriously. I do too but the dealership is probably used to many of their customers being late.

So MORTIFYING that I am usually inappropriately early.

Oh yeah, it's scary how easily I get distracted while driving.

It's like, I just get so stuck into thinking about something that I completely forget what I'm doing, so I'm just driving on automatic. Sometimes I end up at home or at work instead of the place I'm meant to be at.

Or the worst is when someone is talking to me a lot, because I can't think about what they're saying and concentrate on where I'm going at the same time. I don't like to tell people to shut up while I'm driving, but I probably ought to start doing that before I have a serious crash.

I can't do GPS either, my brain doesn't process the verbal instructions so I have to pull over and look at the map.

Apart from all of the above, I'm actually a pretty good driver. Done defensive driving courses and all.
Just likely to end up in the wrong place

diff between you and moi is that i could use a chauffeur and would love it, whereas you still have enough brains cells to wanna pilot yourself.

m-hm, yeah, I guess that's true.
At the moment the feeling of freedom at being able to drive myself is stronger than my concern over my own distractibility and potential consequences thereof.
Though I'm thinking I need to set a rule that nobody is to talk to me while I'm driving.

people can talk to me as long as they follow one rule- serve as my co-pilot and tell me when i reach my exit!

^^^thank you ironically, i'd be a lousy copilot as i tend to get distracted no matter how i try to focus.

for me, no "new possibilities" enter my head when i enter a new room, the memory of why i went there just evaporates until i return to where i first thought it, IF I AM LUCKY.