I've seen navigation navigate me straight into a dead-end street while telling me to turn right at the end, I've seen it send me the wrong way into a one way, or telling me I really needed to take that walkingpath with the boulder in the middle, to prevent people from doing just that, but I have absolutely N E V E R..... E V E R see it so tonguetied, it kept repeating the same sentence for a full 15 Kilometers!!!!
I was hilarious and admittedly a little disconcerting, but mostly hilarious :-)
I went down to Maastricht to visit a mansion with gardens and a lot of walking paths, just to see if it would be worth making it a regular stopover, after filling up the car, just on the other side of the border. (40 cents a liter less, lets me do a little more traveling, so well worth the early Sundaymorning getting out of the house.... an having something to do at the end of it, just seemed like a nice way to spend a little time outdoors, now that the weather isn't quite as cold as it has been the last couple of weeks.... Not spring yet, mind you, but nice. It was a nice place to be, has a bistro for breakfast and lots and lots of space to take that brainclearing walk. Also, there's a ton of puppies to look at while enjoying the walk..... I think I was the only person there that didn't have one. But I digress....
After sitting in the middle of nowhere, enjoying the sun and quiet while reading for about 2 hours, and realising that my asscheeks were so cold, I didn't feel them anymore, I decided to go home, have some lunch and finish my book. I cannot activate navigation after I start driving, because it doesn't always react to the touch, and you REALLY have to look at the screen to hit the spots just right, so I either drive blindly in the direction I think I need to go, or I pick a point I think I need to pass to get where I need to go, if I'm almost certain where I need to be and ignore her once I'm in familiar territory..... and not knowing for sure where to go, I plugged in the next town, knowing that I would pass the entrance to the road I needed to get home on, so..... I drove the way I thought I needed to go and took the first exit on the roundabout instead of the 3rd one as indicated, becaue I knew where I was and how to get home from there.... That's when the fun started. Instead of telling me to turn left, so I could get back to the route she wanted me on like normall, she kept telling me "go west..... go east.... on the roundabout take ...... go east" than she got quiet for a bit, and started up again.... "turn.... turn ..... turn...keep right... go east..... turn left.... slight right, follow......follow..... follow..... go east.... follow...... follow......" never giving a streetname, at all. At this time, I was on the highway, with no turns I cared to take, as they would have taken me down into a meadow or across the divider.... and I kept picturing a doll with its head spinning while springs and things were shooting out of it....
People looking into the car would have thought I completely lost my mind. It was just me in the car, but I was laughing like I was in the middle of George Carlin concert.... Getting into town, she really got lost... On the Valkenburgerweg, she told me to follow the ramp towards Heerlen (there isn't one on this side of town) When I turned on Tenelenweg, she told me to turn right on Valkenburgerweg, and take the 3rd exit on the the roundabout, than go west on hoogstraat (no such street) and follow the tenelenweg,.... follow...... turn..... follow...... When I stopped in front of the house she clammed up until I got into the house and tried again to make me "follow". That's when I mercifully, although regretfully because of the entertainment value, switched off GoogleMaps.
I'm kinda dreading the next time I need it, because if she holds a grudge for freaking her out.... I'll end up in a canal somewhere.......
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