GPS Hell - Don't Forget Your Own Brain Works Pretty Well
Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 12:20PM When I woke up with my eye swollen shut I should have known it was going to be a suck day.
I left Northampton, Massachusetts for Newark Airport at 8:30 am, so that I would have time to have lunch with some friends in Westfield, New Jersey before I turned the car in at the Newark Airport.
So setting my GPS for my pal’s home, looking thru one eye, I began my descent into hell.
The GPS was determined to take me through Manhattan and I was determined to go around it, using the George Washington Bridge to make good my escape.
When really evil people die and go to hell, they wake up driving in Manhattan. That is evidently where hell really is. If you are walking in Manhattan on a fall day, you are in heaven. If you are driving, you are in hell.
You begin to entertain the draconian idea of cleaning out the gene pool and removing the dim ones, by the boatload.
In any event, I made it around Manhattan and across the
George Washington Bridge, by ignoring all the instructions and simply following the signs which, for once, actually made sense.
In no time I was in New Jersey and only 11 minutes from my friends home according to the GPS.
“Take a left, take a left”, she began to demand. I took the left off the tollway.
“Reconfiguring” was the next exclamation.
She took me through fourteen left turns and then I was back to where I use to be, except one exit further away then when she told me to turn left.
“Take the next left. Take the next left”
Which turned out to be a u-turn facility.
She meant the next left AFTER the u-turn facility.
Fifteen minutes later, I was right back where the u-turn facility was, but this time, ignoring her instructions, I went past the next left and then turned left and drove right to my pal’s home.
Here’s what you do with GPS.
You don’t stop thinking. You don’t disregard your own experience. If you get lost, then you are stuck relying on it, but it is fallible.
Trust yourself over your machines.
Reader Comments (1)
you crack me up son!!