Oh gps... How much fun you are. How stupid your created routes. And then you punish me when I don't follow by screaming "HEY #######! YOURE OFF THE ROUTE!"
Like the time I refused to make a u-turn at a busy intersection. Simply to go half a mile down the road to turn into my destination.
Or how about the time you said I had another 5 miles before I'd get there? No. No. I'll turn here and dock at where I'm supposed to be.
Or today... When instead of telling me to take the exit on my right and follow that road... You want me to take a tiny, unpaved emergency road marked for emergency vehicles only, make a u-turn back onto the interstate in another direction and THEN take the exit. No. I appreciate the suggestion. But I'll hang a right here and ignore you.
Please. Continue screaming that I'm out of route and currently swimming in a lake 25 miles from my actual location. If you keep screaming then maybe your speaker will break and I won't have to listen to you.
No. I don't want to hit "re-route." Because that route will be even worse than the original. Because hitting re-route sends your logic into a panic that marks all roads, yes even the one-lane muddy road fraught with the marks of tires from farm equipment.
We disagree on much, and so I'll argue with you even though I know you can't hear or comprehend my annoyance. But it makes me feel better; and after I'm done I'll just use the mute button and turn up my music a tad.
Oh gps... I know where the hell I've been and where I'm going. So my question is, do you?
An ode to gps idiocy...
Discussion in 'Road Stories' started by Vilhiem, Aug 7, 2015.
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Out off curiocity,can you add info in that GPS?
Like tell it you are local traffic?
ps i once bought a GPS at Best Buy,played with in the evening to learn how to operate it....................and returned it to the store the next day.
Went to a bookshop and bought a map.
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Maps. The original GPS.
...or if you're from this day and age...maps are for when your GPS doesn't even know where the hell yours at.
Taught one of my cousins how to use an atlas during a ride along. I loved his question of, "When would I ever use this?"
...I parked the truck, turned off the in cab GPS, confiscated and turned off his phone as well as his laptop. Also turned my phone off.
He was irate... I explained to him that we were in a mountainous area with no cell reception and the GPS got us lost down the wrong road. I've no idea where I'm at and I am the only one than can drive, so he had to read the atlas.
I also added that I wasn't moving until he could figure out where to go.
Funny how quick he learned it... Made him "trip plan" the runs for that week under threat of my confiscating his phone again.
That week he learned how to use an atlas and not to ever ask a teacher's kid, "when will I ever use this?" ...he got real scared that I would create another time when he'd have to use that skill.
Ahh...the younger generations. I can't say much being a part of that generation, but the two things you never say to a teacher (especially my parents) are, "I'm bored," or their favorite, "When will I ever use this?"RustyBolt, Big Don, HeWhoMustNotBeNamed and 1 other person Thank this.
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