It’s difficult these days to become lost. I have GPS in my car and on my phone, so there’s really no excuse for taking a wrong turn, or two, or twelve. But on Saturday afternoon I wandered around Tallahassee for over an hour in search of a specific address and only found it once I’d turned off my guidance apps.
Still, I can’t figure out what went wrong. The address was entered correctly, but first the car’s GPS directed me to a gas station and then to an office complex. I tried my phone’s app and it took me in a huge circle right back to the gas station. Weird. When I turned off the guidance I decided to try to find the intended location just by driving in what I believed to be the logical direction and lo, and behold, I found the venue rather quickly.
The sad part was, I arrived an hour after I’d planned and then had to immediately leave to be home for an outing with Studly Doright, and I was frazzled. I kept picturing my car’s make and model being flashed on one of the highway signs asking drivers to watch for missing senior citizens.
Tomorrow, I’m staying home.
Peace, people.
Praying for Eyebrowz 
Now this is why I just drive… no GPS. Hell, I’ve seen some s*!t with that in my time….
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Usually mine are right on. Not today.
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My dear…the fault of the GPS. Look on one occasion, a friend’s son’s first wedding, where I was playing keyboard, it directed us to a field. yes the hotel WAS there. Over a barbed wire fence. Another happy time, not involving us but a taxi our older girl had called to our then house, in a particularly dreadful winter. GPS sent this driver on her very first night in the job, down this sloping side road , which normally you would know NEVER ever to go down, little better than a boulder track, going nowhere except the old Victorian overgrown lane along the front of these houses, where she jammed the car, requiring a heavy duty tow truck to hoist her out…. SO dinnae you worry.
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Oh wow! I won’t worry anymore.
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No, don’t, seriously. Honey you got nothing to worry r here xxxxxxx
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Darn! I hope you don’t get lost Leslie. You should try asking around the next time you feel lost.
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The problem was, I didn’t have a name for my destination—just an address. I wasn’t sure what to ask for!
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Sometimes guidance applications can be a tad bit painful and your instincts tend to work better. Hope it doesn’t happen again.
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Me, too!
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Leslie–It warmed my heart to read this. One night I was driving home and totally missed my exit and wound up in Alabama. I called my husband and, after finding out where I was, he was able to direct me safely back to Florida. We don’t talk about that any more…..
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Oh! I do understand!
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Bring back paper maps I say!
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I’m a map fan.
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Best to go back to how we used to drive around: no GPS! Maps are great!
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I do love maps.
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Could your GPS need an upgrade? We found ours was dying when, on a journey up north it kept directing us to my former home in London.
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That’s possible!
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I remember back in the pre-Google Maps days, when I relied on my Garmin GPS, getting lost a few times. The problem was, you had to buy updated maps every year or so, and I was too cheap to ever bother.
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My old Mazda had a GPS that often took me on weird paths en route, and it needed periodic updates. Maybe I need to see if that’s the case with my néw car.
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Like so many new technologies, GPS isn’t infallible. I sometimes wonder about younger people who have learned to rely completely on their electronics. Sort of like those who never learner to add, subtract, and multiply since they always use their calculators (now, of course, on their phones). I remember a younger colleague who was completely perplexed when I showed her my Thomas Brothers map book.
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I think I’m going to give each of my grandkids maps when they graduate high school….
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