GPS of Awesome
A little while ago, a friend and I were cruising around town and playing with the car's GPS system. We knew where we were going, we were just having fun with the mechanical voice. At one point, though, instead of taking us through the most obvious and efficient route, the GPS wanted to take us pretty far out of our way. So, of course, we ignored the instructions. Instead of "turn left here" we continued straight, which screwed with the system. The GPS was pretty insistent we should make a left turn, though, so every time we crossed a new street we had to ignore its instructions. And every time we did, the GPS would announce it was recalculating. In our imaginations, the GPS got slightly more irritated every time this happened. "Recalculating... turn left-- recalculating... turn l-- RECALCULATING..."
As a result, when we got far enough along the route the GPS stopped trying to get us to turn and started steering us in the direction we had intended to go in the first place, we started to giggle. We kind of wanted it to start saying things like "If you were just going to ignore my advice, why did you bother asking me in the first place? Go ahead and get lost. See if I care. Shutting down..."
Seriously, I think someone should market an irritable GPS like this. I'm pretty sure people would buy it! I would. It could be a gag gift, if nothing else. And it would amuse me.
As a result, when we got far enough along the route the GPS stopped trying to get us to turn and started steering us in the direction we had intended to go in the first place, we started to giggle. We kind of wanted it to start saying things like "If you were just going to ignore my advice, why did you bother asking me in the first place? Go ahead and get lost. See if I care. Shutting down..."
Seriously, I think someone should market an irritable GPS like this. I'm pretty sure people would buy it! I would. It could be a gag gift, if nothing else. And it would amuse me.