I don't know how many of you remember but a couple weeks ago, I got a Blackberry. Yes, my thumbs are fine and well a custom to texting now. Thank you very much.
So one of the applications on the phone is GPS. I am a GPS virgin and really was not aware of how it worked until Jeff showed me the other day. I must say that they whole thing just freaks me out!!
The little dot on the screen movies when I do. It tells me when to turn right as I read the road sign telling me that my exit is coming up. How does it know these things? I feel like I am being watched. Like there are little men watching me from inside my phone reporting each and every move that I make.
It FREAKS me out! Jeff tells me that this is how GPS works. Well, great but that doesn't make it any less freaky.
Even though I am weirded out my this newfangled invention, I am trying to use it. I got all turned around in driving from my parents house to work. Yes, I know that I have lived in this city for almost 30 years and been driving for 14 of years but I still get lost. I just can't help it. I just get confused.
Anyway, I thought well, I will use my GPS to show me the way. But by the time I got the address entered in, which I don't recommend doing well driving it gets kinda hard to stay on the road, I had figure out where I was but the GPS had also figured out a route for me.
Every time I made a turn that was on in the plan, it kept saying, Recalculating Route. Recalculating Route. Recalculating Route! By the third recalculation, I could sense a little annoyance in its voice.
I expected the little men to jump out and beat me into submission so that I would take the route planned out for me. I was so weirded out by the whole situation that I turned it off.
I have decided that GPS is not bad, still freaky, but not terrible. But I am going to stick to my old way of getting around. Calling Jeff for directions and if he doesn't answer, I call my Dad.
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Oh I love my GPS - it just takes some getting used to.
Yeah, the GPS is great if you have no clue as to where you're going, but it can be annoying with places you go to often. The recalculating thing is obnoxious!
I don't have GPS on my phone, but I have a GPS system. I yell at her a lot. It's always "her" fault.... everything is her fault! lol
i am dying here...and as an engineer who has worked specifically on gps in cell phones and user interface, i'm really rolling. hysterical...maybe you need onstar...that's one of my designs too! i'm sure it would be equally annoying!
Is it paranoia when it's true? The next step is chips in the head, mark my words, chica.
I hope they have that developed once the boys come of driving age.
Mommaof4wifeof2 - I LOVE OnStar!!
heehee, my parents car has one that says turn left ahead in 1.5 miles, turn left ahead in 1.2 miles and on and on it goes. i want to beat it up...
LOL! This reminds me of "The Office" episode where the GPS tells them to drive into a lake!
GPS in your phone? This made me think of the movie "Eagle Eye." Yeah, scary what the government is capable of.
Next thing you know they'll have GPS in our food or something, like they have cameras in everything. They're coming!
Sorry, hope I didnt freak you out more. Its a very useful product.
This is SO how I am. I borrowed my husband's GPS when on a trip last year and a friend came along. She'd never been around a GPS and she would just stare at it, open-mouthed and talk about how freaky it was. It helped us not get lost and gave us so many laughs because it's Sean Connery's voice. Then when you reach your destination, Sean says,
"you have reached your DES.TIN.A.TION. Shaken. Not stirred." No lie.
Mine is a lady, and she has different names based on her personality for the day. When we're nearing a turn (and she doesn't think we're turning), she starts saying turn left. TURN LEFT. TTUURRNN LLEEFFTTT. Then, her name is Verna. Sounds like a crabby lady, doesn't it?
Just imagine getting yelled at by a GPS with a British accent. Welcome to my world.
Don't feel bad, I am still a virgin too.
I used the GPS a lot in Richmond -- even though it is technically my husband's. I can pretty easily get around Billings, though and don't use it much -- plus the maps on ours are outdated. It's kind of fun to piss Lola off. Off route. Recalculating.
Wow, that would seriously annoy.
My sister visited my house for the first time using her new GPS. She called me from one street below me screaming, "My GPS says I'm at your house, but I know you don't live in a brick ranch! What the hell!" I had to walk out on my deck and say "Look behind you! Can you see me waving! Look for a deck!" Apparently, my house screws up GPS systems, cause it only happens to her at my house.
My only experience with a GPS was like 15 years ago when they were brand, brand new. Everytime we missed our turn, the dang machine would yell "You missed your turn! Turn around immediately! Turn around immediately!" aaaaargh!
my sil had a gps that we used this summer to go to the beach. i knew where we were headed, but we turned on the gps anyway. it got VERY annoyed at us because we were taking back roads and would not follow its directions. i, too, expected the man to get out of the thing and beat us!!
i suppose it's nice if you don't know where you are going (but i guess that's the whole point of the gps)
I feel like we should get to pick the type of voice the commands are given in...I think I would want Barry White or a valley girl. It would be like OMG, you idiot, you just missed ur turn....
Oh and last night we told our kids (teenagers) that they are now putting GPS chips in kids so we will know where they are at all times...they got really quiet and nervous...it was too funny!
I'm not really into electronic tracking software. I even frown on using it on my blog. It kinda freaks me out, too! PS: I'm having another Pop'rs Giveaway, and I KNOW you want to enter!
Good attempt at trying to figure out the GPS. Sometimes technology can drive you crazy. I think the GPS voice can get annoying especially with screaming little ones in the back. Who needs another voice joining the peanut gallery?
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I prefer to go old school as well.
I have TomTom and I love him. He's my electronic boyfriend. Actually, I gave him a woman's voice, so maybe I need to reevaluate that relationship. I am always going off his/her route. I get a sick delight in making him/her think.
I am CRACKING UP because PB likes to torture our little GPS lady and make her recalculate over and over again. I swear I hear her getting annoyed too. That's hilarious.
I am directionally challenged but ever since I got glasses I am much better:-) Hee, hee, hee.
I'm all about finding my way around town old school...well, that and mapquest. :)
We have the Garmin GPS. I like it a lot! It is handy for us because we are newbies to TX and so often know not where to go.
It never fails, though: we'll be going somewhere, no idea where we're supposed to turn, and we'll be right about to need the exact exit number or address and suddenly the screen goes all ??? and says, "Recalculating" and the words flash "Searching for signal". DAMN SATELLITES!!!
I've never used one... I get annoyed with people telling me what to do...
It's good to know that there is someone as freaked out by technology as I am.
My GPS story includes the mongrel thing getting in a huff after the third "recalculating route" and turning itself off. Not precisely helpful when I didn't know where I was going. I hadn't checked the map before I left because I had GPS. Grrr.
I tried a GPS for my first time this summer...
I loved it, but have no use for it here in India...
However, I'll agree that the "recalculating" thing really drove me nuts as well!
I dont' have GPS.
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I'm totally freaked out by our GPS. When we first got it I was talking to my huband on the phone and I heard a woman's voice in the truck with him. And I got pissed. That GPS lady almost caused a divorce!
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