This summer I got my first introduction to on-board GPS.
I'll admit it's fun to take a route other than the one the GPS thinks I should go on:
Please make a U-turn as soon as possible.
Recalculating.
Recalculating.
Pause.
This is an alternate route.
Continue 103 miles to.
Recalculating.
(I hear that if you make it recalculate 10 times in as many minutes, the voice starts using bad language.)
But because I like maps and can easily get exit #s from Mapquest, I don't see the purpose of GPS. As I get older, I figure I need to challenge my brain as much as possible and if I miss an exit, I've always been able to find my way back. Except for that one time in Dallas of which I will not speak.
My friend, who says she cannot live without it, ended up in Kentucky on a dead end road with a 10-foot drop to a creek complete with rusty automobile on one side and a kudzu covered cliff on the other. "But that's how it told me to go!!!"
So if you've got it, do you use it? Do you want it?
I'll admit it's fun to take a route other than the one the GPS thinks I should go on:
Please make a U-turn as soon as possible.
Recalculating.
Recalculating.
Pause.
This is an alternate route.
Continue 103 miles to.
Recalculating.
(I hear that if you make it recalculate 10 times in as many minutes, the voice starts using bad language.)
But because I like maps and can easily get exit #s from Mapquest, I don't see the purpose of GPS. As I get older, I figure I need to challenge my brain as much as possible and if I miss an exit, I've always been able to find my way back. Except for that one time in Dallas of which I will not speak.
My friend, who says she cannot live without it, ended up in Kentucky on a dead end road with a 10-foot drop to a creek complete with rusty automobile on one side and a kudzu covered cliff on the other. "But that's how it told me to go!!!"
So if you've got it, do you use it? Do you want it?
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