A built in invisible friend.
This wee friend advises me when my car is low on gas and where the nearest service station is.
She points out the nearest Hospitals and clinics..helping me to embrace my inner hypochondriac. She makes me feel all safe and cozy like.
She answers the phone for me. I just have to press a little button on the dash that says accept or ignore. Doesn’t matter how loud the music is, she turns the music off for a moment to see if I want to take the call.
My little invisible friend even learns my favorite songs on the radio and lets me know when they are playing on another station!!
Quite possibly my favorite thing about the voice that pops out of my speakers is that she knows how to get me places. Ahhh yes, she is the Queen of Directions. How I love and depend on her built in Global Positioning System. Perhaps depend and GPS should not be allowed in the same sentence. This is where I get in to trouble.
If my invisible friend tells me I must go straight, even if my brain is screaming “TURN, TURN Right you idiot” I defer to the GPS. My invisible friend couldn’t be WRONG!
If my invisible friend tells me to take Lake Shore in 300 metres but I really think I should continue on to Lake View, who do I listen to? Well the sweet calm voice of my invisible friend of course. She has steered me the long way around a few times but I always get to my destination.
Until…
I asked my little friend how to find a remote cottage for my girls weekend.
I programed in the address and she answered “Route Complete“.
No problem baby, thanks to technology I can do anything. Time to kick back and enjoy the drive.
1 1/2 hours into my drive my dear sweet invisible friend announced.
“You have entered an unmapped area. Please refer to your road map for the completion of your journey”
WHAT??
I am in Bumble %#&*
I do not have a map. I have you!
“Drive Safely. Goodbye” She said.
Oh no, don’t leave me! Re-compute. Re-calculate! Come Back!!
“I’m sorry. This area is not currently mapped. Please refer to your map”
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!
Now what. Okay. Cell Phone.
doot do do do doo do doot
No Service.
CRAP on a STICK!
Great, now I have to try and use this pretty little head of mind. Ha.
I was a mere 5 minutes from my girlfriends cottage and yet had to ask three different groups of people for directions before I finally arrived, red faced, at my destination.
It is official. GPS is making me stupid.
ha! Got to love technology! Too funny. I am glad you made it. You would think it would tell you that it was unmarked territory BEFORE you got there.
That’s great! I depend on my GPS so much that after living in Portland for a year, I cannot remember how to get to the airport from my apartment. And it’s not far. Or complicated. I just don’t pay attention. Sheesh.
That’s hilarious! My boyfriend has a Garmin (a GPS, not built-in to the car) and I absolutely adore it! It’s never let us down, even when we traveled to Michigan’s UP. Which was pretty much all dirt roads and trees.
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LMAO someone else who feels my pain. My GPS is built into my car as well and I swear sometimes she’s a pain!!!!!!
I have had my GPS steer me wrong more than once. Mapquest also is wrong sometimes. I think a good old fashioned map is probably a good thing to keep in your car…just in case!
I do not doubt that it would do me the same way. Plus, if it disagreed with me, I would try to kill it:)
i had to take my GPS out because i was becoming too dependent. my hubby was afraid I’d forget how to drive with out t š
I don’t have a GPS, and if I did I think I’d end up smashing in the dashboard.
I’d have to sell the car…… or shoot out the GPS…… didn’t the computer chip realize that maps are not our friends????
if I have to consult a map ( which I don’t own in the first place….) Than why would I need you, GPS???? ( I also don’t own a license or a car…)
You made me laugh till tears ran down my face, by the way…. but I wasn’t laughing about your predicament…. that would be wrong…..
I’m gonna go french kiss Mr. Taxi driver man, now…..
I’ve come out of cowering in a corner after reading this post. I just don’t know what I’d do without my “friend”.. we call her Susie Ahbats (like bats, you know crazy, not that I am or anything, at least not clinically that I know of or would share with the blogosphere or my husband, though I think he might suspect). She got me safely through the crazy roads in Italy. Helps me steer clear of getting lost in DC. One never wants to get lost there without a guard dog, a tazer and a lobbyist. The mere thought that she’d one day leave me to a map considering I couldn’t find my way out of a paper sack with out her. SHUDDER!
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