Temperamental GPS

I was talking to my mom today, and she said, “I was coming from some place and going somewhere.” And I told her, “I certainly hope so, why else would you be in the car?” She laughed and said, “That’s not the point of the story.” She continued that the GPS told her to take this road, but it was blocked by an accident. The police officer had her take a detour, but the GPS kept trying to make her make a u-turn and go back. For two miles, the GPS kept trying to make her turn around until she finally just turned it off. When she turned it back on, hoping that it would map out a new route, it immediately told her to take a u-turn!

This got us talking about how funny it is when people talk to their GPS, like it can hear them. I told her that I do that all the time, and my son always asks who I’m talking to.

This one time, the GPS told me to turn right at a stoplight, but I was stuck behind some cars. When it was finally my turn, there was quite a bit of traffic on the crossroad. The entire time, the GPS was continuously saying, “Turn right…turn right…turn right.”

I told her that I was trying to, but there were cars in front of me. When she persisted, I held the phone up to the window, so the GPS could see the car in front of me. When that didn’t deter her, I also showed her the cross traffic whizzing by. There was a pause, and I thought I’d finally managed to get through to her. Then, she said, “Turn right.”