tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2322681769778568110.post6804640210837639364..comments2023-04-27T11:31:29.906-04:00Comments on Mystics, Poets, and Fools: You Have Reached Your Destination…Shawna Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18031043060163590745noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2322681769778568110.post-72763978363584116962010-07-25T17:12:31.696-04:002010-07-25T17:12:31.696-04:00I don't think your GPS can be Australian. If ...I don't think your GPS can be Australian. If it was it would know how to swear like a trouper using extremely colourful language.How do I know? I live in the midst of Australians, am Australian [though not the swearing sort] & all our GPS sound like Micky Mouse.Ganeidahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17176246964466185315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2322681769778568110.post-91887776401413501842009-09-26T23:06:08.701-04:002009-09-26T23:06:08.701-04:00Emma is valuable because if I take a wrong turn or...Emma is valuable because if I take a wrong turn or disregard something she says, she will recalculate a corrected route for me within 10 seconds that she thinks will get me there from wherever I am, at any given moment.<br /><br />That's extremely valuable if I make a wrong turn, because I can't hold a road atlas with one hand at 50 mph in the dark while driving through New York City rush hour with the other. And there ain't nowhere to pull over on the George Washington Bridge to look at a map.<br /><br />But I get bad maps, bad directions, and bad GPS info all the time. I drive over curbs, smash stop signs, and take yet another bite out of that too-close telephone pole when that happens.<br /><br />I just wave cheerfully at people while I crush the flower beds and after a while they wave back.kevin robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07336902422644197456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2322681769778568110.post-14681171851448374722009-09-19T22:34:54.259-04:002009-09-19T22:34:54.259-04:00I could believe that... as I was following Emma...I could believe that... as I was following Emma's instructions, I couldn't help noticing that, if she were to suddenly stop working, I would have no idea whatsoever how to find my way either back or forwards...<br /><br />Thanks for the long-way gossip about the best man. It would truly be the long-way round, if you heard it from someone in New Zealand... which isn't impossible, given the wild and wacky world of Quakerdom!Shawna Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031043060163590745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2322681769778568110.post-56397587765980596622009-09-16T16:29:07.168-04:002009-09-16T16:29:07.168-04:00I still prefer a AAA map with the whole area marke...I still prefer a AAA map with the whole area marked out to any of those newfangled services. With the online maps/dircections, if you miss a turn you're lost. <br /><br />Once a woman using her new GPS came to my newly constructed apartment building. She called me to say, "I'm here, but I don't see the landmarks you described." I asked, "so what street are you on?" She said, "I don't know, the GPS just said to turn here and I did." She had to hang up, go find a street sign and call me back. Turns out she was two blocks up the street, because our address didn't really exist yet in the GPS database.<br /><br />I heard that the best man was late because he had to finish ministering in his own church before he could come serve his best man duties. Now how's that for gossip the long way round?Robin M.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10336915224193704866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2322681769778568110.post-81392315367948134622009-09-15T18:29:14.742-04:002009-09-15T18:29:14.742-04:00Ya gotta love it!
I am not going to run out and b...Ya gotta love it!<br /><br />I am not going to run out and buy myself a GPS, I will say that. I can understand why Kevin wants it for driving his semi. He can program his route in, and then Emma tells him when to turn, in the absence of a human navigator.<br /><br />I suppose if none of these new-fangled devices ever went wrong, we wouldn't have any good stories to tell...Shawna Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18031043060163590745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2322681769778568110.post-22308204333114844932009-09-15T09:17:09.123-04:002009-09-15T09:17:09.123-04:00I guess I'm old fashioned (sorta). I just can...I guess I'm old fashioned (sorta). I just can't see the value of spending hundreds for a backseat driver. But I DO love those map services. However, I recently got into the same sort of trouble using that. At least we had a printout showing alternates, and a pinpointed destination.<br />Ain't this modern world FUN?Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07004334102672210987noreply@blogger.com