If someone directs you to drive three sees, they’re advising you “drive as far as you can see, then do it two more times.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Drive Sees”
We got an email from Jean Ritzema in Indianapolis, who wrote to tell us about a conversation she had with a dear friend.
He was telling her about a road trip that he and college classmates made from New Hampshire to Fort Lauderdale, Florida, way back in the 1930s during spring break.
She writes, driving along the coast in Georgia, they began to wonder if they were on the right road.
They stopped to ask an old farmer if it was the road to Savannah.
The farmer confirmed it was.
When asked how far it was, the farmer replied, about three C’s.
Puzzled, they asked what that meant.
The farmer said, you drive as far as you can see, and then you do that twice again.
Isn’t that great?
Three C’s.
I love it.
I can picture it.
It could work.
Yeah.
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