Confusion

(this is an old photo taken years ago)


Story retold to me via Brian:

Brian was backing the trailer out of the driveway the other night and when he looked in his side mirror, he noticed Ellery was waving him back and then holding her hand up for to 'stop'. He was like 'oh cute she wants to help me back up'. So he follows her lead, with the waving - he backs up, with the hand in the stop position - he stops. He said he looked up and by the time he looked back in the mirror she was gone, so he looks out the window and spots her over in the garage. He thinks, well that was short lived, and proceeds to finish backing up the trailer.

So he asks her why she didn't finish helping him back up. Apparently she must have given him a puzzled face and said, what do you mean? I don't know how the conversation went, but come to find out she thought that people just wave their arms around when people back up, she didn't know it was to actually guide someone when they were backing up.

Hilarious. She was just back there flapping her arms around and he thought she was helping. Think of the disaster this could have caused if she had stuck around and he had followed her lead!