GPS, don't like um

[Beth K.]

My Mom and I joke that GPSs are manufactured by the oil companies so that you take the longest route and thus buy more gas.

And yet, sometimes it seems too plausible to be a joke...

 

[annageckos]

Beth K. :

My Mom and I joke that GPSs are manufactured by the oil companies so that you take the longest route and thus buy more gas.

And yet, sometimes it seems too plausible to be a joke...

It really does seem that way sometimes. I do agree that they can be helpful sometimes. When we go to an unfamiliar area we take the GPS, along with written directions, and use the GPS as a guide. It can be helpful for those stupid circles NJ has. But sometimes I want to throw it out the window.

I really wish that I could put my route that I want to take in before we leave and have it direct us that way. That would be useful.​

 

[cupman]

I don't like that there technology stuff, it gives me the creeps. I won't even let my kids use a calculator, they use an abacus only. they keep complaining "but we're in calculus" WELL TOUGH. no technology in this house.

 

[Dar]

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me too!.. it will actually take you to the Cargill beef processing plant... and if you have the GPS on and come down my driveway it says you are in a farmers field

 

[silkiechicken]

I LOVE GPS!!!

However... I always look stuff up first... and the GPS is just a road map.

It's a GPS, not autopilot.

 

[annageckos]

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True, but it isn't very helpful when it wants you to turn left into a building when your turn is a right a few blocks away.

 

[fuzziebutt]

OnStar is pretty cool. Just push the button, and give them the address you are heading to. It will find you on the route, and download directions to your car. It will tell, and show you on the screen, to turn left ahead. If you miss the turn, it'll say "when you return to the route, we will continue with your directions". And if I wreck, OnStar can get emergency personnel out to me. I have had some health issues, so I never know when I need it. And if the car is stolen, it has a GPS that OnStar uses to tell where the car is. AND MY FAVORITE: If I lock my keys in the car, I can call onstar, and they will unlock the car for me!! That saves ANOTHER one of those calls home.

 

[lovesduckies]

Okay i am about to share an embarrassing story about GPS.. i don't like them either.. and when we read this story can we all keep in mind that i am naturally blond, and i was a lack of oxygen baby so the doc told my mom i would always be slow

and ya i'm not the brightest crayon in the box...

soo when they first started coming out i had no idea what they were.. my brother had borrowed my brother-in-laws. so i'm at petsmart getting food for my animals and my brother calls and asks what i'm doing i tell him i'm at petsmart getting animal food he goes cool are you in the store? i said no. he said okay well get out of your car so i can see you and i'm thinking what the heck you can see people with these things!? so i get out.. he's like wow cool i can see you!! i'm like are you serious!? that's crazy. he goes yeah flip me off (LOL i know my family is rude lol) so i go okay which way do you want me to point. he says point north (he lived in washington at the time) soo i do it. LOL people are looking at me like what the heck!? yeah then he laughed and called me an idiot. my mom was there at the time visiting my siblings so she was there with my brother laughing her butt off..


yeah i hate gps but my phone came with one

i use the list directions cuz i suck at maps lol

 

[geepy]

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Brothers are so annoying. I have two of them.

 

[lovesduckies]

I also have 2 brothers. Amazingly the younger one isn't as annoying as te older one