Doing it old school without GPS.

Hi Lepton1, I do indeed remember that. It was my first job out of high school. Summer of '72, I made $1.77/hr. Matter of fact, try and even find a full service station nowadays. I believe there are 2 in Milwaukee now. Yep, I remember the line my boss told me to ask, "Fill 'er up with premium, sir(or mam)"? Most peoples response would be, "Nah, a bucks worth of regular".

 

[QUOTE="semi" retired;3994283]Hi Lepton1, I do indeed remember that. It was my first job out of high school. Summer of '72, I made $1.77/hr. Matter of fact, try and even find a full service station nowadays. I believe there are 2 in Milwaukee now. Yep, I remember the line my boss told me to ask, "Fill 'er up with premium, sir(or mam)"? Most peoples response would be, "Nah, a bucks worth of regular".[/QUOTE]

Got one near where I live wife loves it but more like nah 20 dollars though

 

Yeah i can mute it with a .44 mag....

 

Why yes you can. You can use a magnum 44 as a stylus to tap the screen to adjust the volume settings.

 

I believe that would be the old rt 15... If hheaded north, get off at liberty, turn right, go to the next intersection and turn left. Follow to mansfield.....QUOTE=rank;3994069]Hey you Rand McNally Atlas guys.....can you find the route 2005 that PA has routed me on for 18.69 miles somewhere between Liberty and Mansfield? Must use paper atlas only
now.....no cheating.[/QUOTE]

 

Bottom list #3 owning a wife gets expensive and is just like #1, 2, and 3 on the top list. They tell you where to go (GPS), They know your every move (EOBR), They watch everything you do (Dash Cam)! You've had them all along and didn't know it!

You gotta own a fridge! A man can live on beanie wienies and Subway forever or can he?

 

I never really paid attention to how often my Garmin 465 actually gives bad directions. I, more often than not, already know how I am going to get somewhere and I primarily use the GPS for setting my ETAs (it's actually quite accurate in that way, rarely off by a couple of minutes, traffic withstanding, but I have the traffic antenna, so it adds the delay time. Kinda neat).

Example #1, Monee, IL to Smucker's, 1050 Stanton st, Ripon, WI. 99% accurate, except at the end. It said to turn L onto Oshkosh St, then R onto Stanton. I don't follow that way, residential area. I follow the signs to the Industrial Park. GPS reroutes; it says turn L on 'Road' except Road is a railroad. It's a good thing I know my way around here. And yes I let the fine folks at Garmin know about that... a couple years ago.

Example #2, Ripon, WI to Sonoco US Mills, 69 Washington St, Menasha, WI. Again 99% good. The route suggested is

US 41 N, US 10 E, X Racine Av S, R on SR-114 to shpr. It's a good route but out of the way.

I took, US41 N, X 131, R on SR-114 to shpr.

Don't get me wrong, GPSs are great tools, but they can be and are woefully inaccurate at times. To use weapon analogies, an atlas is a musket, and a GPS is a sniper rifle but the crosshairs are misaligned and the image isn't what is really there all of the time.

 

I agree Condo, people, especially my kids accuse me of being too paranoid, but I've thought all along, cameras are everywhere. When the DVR came out, the first thing I thought of was, what an excellent way of seeing what's going on in your house. That movie with Will Smith( forget the name) where cameras see his every move, freaked me out.
As far as the fridge, a huge 10-4 there. I actually LOST weight while I was on the road. I just couldn't eat that junk and pay $10 dollars or more to feel awful. If I went back out, aside from a dash cam(to look forward) a fridge would be the next thing.

 

You actually depend on a little box that got it's instructions from some freaked-out computer-geek to tell you how to get to where you want to go? The only thing it's really good for is to tell you where you currently are... if you can't manage to look out the window and figure that out for yourself.