Thursday, August 12, 2010
Technology dependent
Am I the only who thinks it is strange when people persist in giving you directions, even after you tell them you have a GPS? Is anyone else surprised when people even ask for directions anymore (especially over email) when Google maps is so much easier, more detailed, and more efficient?
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I still ask what the best way is to get to a place. For we have learned by sad experience, satellite maps have very little tolerance for traffic lights, construction zones, and seedy parts of town. They eventually can get you anywhere, but there is no substitute for time-tested experience.
yes and yes.
I'm often guilty of the former. Our address should be straight forward enough, but friends and delivery people call us all of the time to tell us that their GPS can't find us.
I completely agree! Whenever people start to give me directions (using vague landmarks and approximate times and distances), I try to cut them off saying that I've got GPS, but they usually keep giving directions! Oh well. Maybe it's a generational thing.
Did you ever see The Office episode where the GPS tells Dwight and Michael to turn right, so they follow the directions and drive into a lake?! Classic.
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