Unconvinced I remain that this sort of constant directional guidance is at all necessary, but the technology exists.........so, why not go ahead and toss your paper maps out the window, train your eyes on the glowing GPS screen (possibly you should glance at the the road once in a while, too), and listen to the commands of the politely seductive female voice emanating from the GPS unit. If you actually followed her directions to a "T", you might occasionally experience the excitement of driving into a river, or through someone's house, or into a cow pasture!
The pleasant electronic female voice also immediately brings it to your attention when you have missed a turn that is on HER schedule for you to make! She then sweetly warbles, "Please make a legal U-turn......Please make a legal U-turn." (In other words: "Turn around, Idiot!") With the other noises going on in the vehicle we were in, her command instead sounded like, "Please made illegal U-turn. Please make illegal U-turn." For quite awhile we actually thought that's what she was saying!
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But, here's what really gave us all a good laugh: In this next photo, the red blip-----which was our vehicle-----was suddenly pulsing around without a directional line to follow........like a little boat caught up or down a creek without a paddle! The blurred words in the white box at the top flashed at us: "Proceed to a mapped road.......Proceed to a mapped road!" This command box materialized like a worried mother whenever our vehicle happened to take a turn to an "unmapped" location........such as our farm driveway------our HOME, mind you!!! It was then as if suddenly we were NOWHERE.......in a limbo area, lacking our bearings.......and the nebulous GPS entity struggled from afar with that confusing circumstance, fretfully pleading with us to return to SOMEWHERE.....a place it could recognize!!
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Heaven forbid that any of us should wander into an unmapped place! Please be certain to proceed only into "mapped" areas today as you blip and pulse down the road of life!!!
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5 comments:
I love hearing about the unresolved kinks in the latest MUST-HAVE technology. I just confirms my natural tendency to wait. LOL
Interesting! I will confess - I have yet to see a GPS unit is a car or truck! I have heard about them and I am guessing they will become standard equipment soon...
Several of the farmers in my area use GPS for planting and spraying crops. All they have to do is turn the tractor around - the GPS whatever it is thing does the driving!! Goodness!!
It is easy to tell who is planting with a GPS -- the markers are not down! (Markers, as you know, are those long poles that flop down and make a mark in the ground that the farmer drives over when planting...)
Just a minute!! I have a call coming in on my Dick Tracey wrist watch!! You know, in today's day and age, that is no longer fantasy!!!
Take care!
Very funny story!
Some friends of ours who have a GPS have named the voice Rhonda, just so that they can sing, "Help me, Rhonda! Help, help me, Rhonda!"
Hi, Ruth, Russell, rhymeswithplague!
At least the GPS had entertainment value, providing needed laughs. Maybe it can be a must-have for that reason!
I hadn't thought of that, Russell....that planters guided by GPS wouldn't have the markers down.....good point! I'll have to take closer notice next spring. Aren't robotic tractors being developed, too? What on earth will people do someday, with nothing to do!
"Help Me, Rhonda".....none of us thought of giving the GPS voice a name....that's a clever idea. We wondered where the voice originates from......in the box on the dash, or up in the satellite is space?
Hmmmmmm...never have seen a GPS. Hear about them all the time. I'm pretty good with directions and my luck with "electrical stuff" (none of it lasts very long..think I have some reverse electrical charge in my body...truthfully!)it'd have me going completely opposite of where I wanted to go!
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