The Hazards of Owning a GPS

[mareserinitatis]

Now that I have owned and used my new GPS for about six weeks, I've discovered one very bad side effect: I can't give myself directions anymore. No, anytime I think about where I am driving, "Jill's" voice pops in with a "turn right on Washington" or "keep left on I-94".

I feel possessed.

Comments

[crayonbreakygal]

hehehehe

I have one of those things in my car. It told me the wrong directions to a place I sort of knew where I was going. Since I went another way, it confused the hell out of it. It finally came back on when I was about two blocks from my destination. My boy and I screamed out laughing so hard.

[mareserinitatis]

I've had similar things happen. What's worse is when it doesn't know that you've gotten off route. Or one day it tells me to go one way to get to a place, and the next day it gives me a different route.

They're fickle creatures, those GPS units...

[driftingfocus]

Heh. If I had one, I'd just keep it on mute.

[mareserinitatis]

The problem is that I don't like to look at it when I'm driving...so I need to hear the voice instructions. Gah! :-)

Not that I'm saying "I told you so", but.....

[mybadattitudes]

....I warned you that computer-generated voice would be annoying, but did you listen to my sage advice and buy a King's Twin Cities Street Atlas ("The King of Maps")? Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. But that's okay. You're still a friend of mine and I'll continue to give you tidbit after excruciating tidbit from my gushing fountain of unsolicited advice anyway (bwahahahahahahahahaha!) :-)

Peace.

Re: Not that I'm saying "I told you so", but.....

[mareserinitatis]

If you can find me a King's Twin Cities Street Atlas that a time-to-arrival minimization function, then I'll consider buying it. I'm guessing, however, that such a nifty function must have some detractor, and the verbal instructions may very well be it. :-)

[tomysky]

[laughing] Ah, the spiritual dangers of technology. The Amish and Luddites were right after all!

~Luke

[mareserinitatis]

Next time I get the line about Quakers being "Satan-worshippers", perhaps I will counter by saying, "Yes, and his voice sounds just like my GPS...because that's the little voice I hear in my head all the time."

Then they'll know I've gone nuts. :-)