Yeah, I hate it when I get sent on impromptu driving runs at work. I work in a different county than I live in. Whenever I have to pick a kid up from a home pass or something it always seems to take 10x longer than it takes other drivers.
A while ago I had to drop some people off in different parts of LA. My supervisor simply had me drive over, pick up the people, and he was like "Ok, bring them home" without any mention of addresses or directions, and it was dark out. My GPS died on me and the people I had to drop off didn't know how to get home from where we were. It took about a half-hour of tension-packed fidgeting before I finally was able to subscribe to my cell phone carrier's GPS service and sheepishly high-tail it to their homes.
On Halloween I had to pick a couple of kids up. One of them lived in West Hollywood, and I have no idea how to get around in LA county. Well, thanks to my GPS I made it down there amidst terrible traffic, only to find that the apartment number they had given me did not exist in the building I went to. Then the contact number for the parent didn't work because someone mistakenly took down the parent's work phone number instead of the home phone. It eventually got sorted out, but it pushes my stress level through the roof because theoretically it's such a simple concept. Go to address, pick up kid, go back to work site. It never seems to work out that simply.
So yeah, I am awesome at getting lost and being at the mercy of technology.