They get lost, then turn up again.
Ballots sometimes get lost, then found, sometimes innocently, sometimes not.
"You never get lost then?" "Never," she says.
"If you get lost, then you sometimes get to go to places that you never expected.
Is that any better?" Sally gets lost, then finds her way.
Provided you take the time to study the map and manage to get someone to give you good directions that you can follow if you do get lost then you should get there on time, and he can get there all the happier for having travelled without you nagging him the whole way there.
"As a nation, we just can't afford to have students spending four years or more getting through high school, when we all know senior year is a waste," said Hilary Pennington of the Gates Foundation, "then having this swirl between high school and college, when a lot more students get lost, then a two-year degree that takes three or four years, if the student ever completes it at all".
If you want to keep them so they don't get lost then ask them to keep them where they are, but if you don't want to keep track of them tell them to take them home and bring them back the next time.
They ate sickening amounts of cotton candy, stayed up way past bedtime, scampered off and got lost and then quickly found again.
The drama in Sierra Leone, where a rebel group is holding 500 United Nations peacekeepers hostage, is all the more distressing because of the circumstances: the soldiers wandered into the West African bush with outdated maps, got lost, and then were captured and stripped of their weapons by the very guerrillas they were sent to disarm.
