driving to maidenhead

Me and my brother went down to maidenhead to see a friend of his who was having a get-together. What should have been a twenty minute drive became a two hour affair because we got totally lost and found ourselves heading in the opposite direction. Even getting to maidenhead didnt help matters because we couldnt find the house and just kept going round and round while my brother cursed. He gets irritable very easily while I was simply enjoying the view. In the end they had to send over some people to show us the way and only then did we finally get there when the get-together had basically already been 'got together' so to speak. Still it was fun. At the end of the evening when almost everyone had left, me and my brother had a very long and interesting discussion with an Angolan guy called Joao about Africa's problems-the how, why and what the fucks of the issues. it was very stimulating and it still amazes me how a few units of alcohol can make you suprisingly articulate.
Of course our problems were not over (you always pay for having a good time). We discovered we were running out of fuel so what happened next was a one hour drive all around the town looking for a cashpoint for my bank card which we didnt get for another hour. It was around 3.am by the way and my brother was in the mood to kill someone. Murphy's law- what can you do?