The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, or how pop culture can mess up your directions

[Lawrene0]

We have a tin man. He is a rescue. (A friend was throwing him out.) He sits beside the barn and makes himself useful by being the landmark I use in my welcome letter to guests: "Please park beside the tin man." 

This keeps the guests from blocking the company dumpster, which they were previously always keen to do. It has worked for over 200 bookings.

Foolproof. 

I was working in the big city last month when one-night guests from approx an hour away were scheduled for a 2 pm arrival.

At around 8 pm my husband texted that he had just got home and the guests had not arrived yet. I was worried, as the trail is hard to find after dark. My directions had been daytime directions. I contacted the guests to ask for an updated ETA so Harry could meet them and light the way. 

They wrote back to say they arrived at 2 pm, and everything was great. In the short back-and-forth, they told me they were parked beside the tin man, just like the letter said.

Harry swore there was no car beside the tin man. He grabbed a flashlight and went out to widen the search.

He eventually found the car. The guests had driven it another few hundred metres over grass and brambles and into the dormant vegetable garden. 

Where they parked it beside the scarecrow. 

This is the tin manThis is the scarecrow

[Branka-and-Silvia0]

@Lawrene0😄 😄 is english their primary language? If not they may confused "tin man" with "thin man" 😄