Rocky on GPS Navigation:

I did not work of Friday, instead my parents and I left at 5:00 am to go to Greensboro, NC. My dad has a GPS unit and he used it to drive the entire way to my sister's new in-laws house. My sister is getting married in September and both parents have not met each other. He calls his GPS Jill because of the female voice. The entire way, I was looking at a map and I said, "Go Left and get on the interstate." But he wouldn't do it because the GPS said to stay on this two lane back road. It took us 7 hours to get here and it could have taken us 5 hours. I later figured out that the GPS was programmed to take the shortest route in distance and not time.

My dad got tired and then drove the last hour. We were within 2 blocks of my sister's new in-laws house, on the correct street and the GPS told us, to turn onto Madison street. I said, "That is stupid, I am on the right road." My dad made me stop, back up and turn on to Madison street, which i new was incorrect, just because the GPS said so. As soon as I got on Madison street, Jill said, "Do a U Turn", then it put us back on the street that I knew was correct. GPS is good tool, but it just can't replace a road map.

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[Wapiti]

Read yesterday's news about the Seattle bus driver full of school kids, who drove under a bridge an obvious foot or two lower than the bus itself -- all because the onboard GPS said to.