Assignment 4- Eleanor Badgett

I know its not that deep but the first thing that popped into my head when reading this prompt was a memory of a conversation I had with my grandfather on a trip to Florida six or so years ago. In the particular beach condo unit we rented on our trip, there was a map of Florida hanging on the wall. Everywhere we go my grandfather loves to look at the art on the walls. Whether at an actual art museum, a hotel lobby, or Cracker Barrel I can always depend him to have something to tell me about whatever is hanging. In the case of the map on the condo wall, he was explaining where we were staying in relationship to where he and my grandmother often vacation in the winter with their friends. At the end of that conversation he threw in "and I guess that means this is the eastern most point in the United States" and pointed to the easter most point in Florida. Now, my grandfather in an extremely smart and insightful person, but I have to say this was not his finest moment. I told him how I thought he was wrong, explaning how I rembered the north part of the US being further east than any part of Florida. I definitely love my grandfather but he can be a little hard headed, and I was so confindent in my statement I let the argument go on long enough for him to be compelled to looking up a map of the United States, only to be proven wrong.