Recalculating

[Ozz]

I remember the old days very clearly, I would have the old folding maps all over the front seat, then they came out with the book-maps, but it was still difficult to go to an address.
Sometimes I have 5 or 6 addresses to go to, now I plug all of them in and it routs me, then saves the addresses, pretty cool.
There are draw-backs; I never knew there were so many Places, drives, lanes, streets, terraces, courts and so on, you better enter it right, or you will end up someplace that does not have a broken furnace. Garbage in, wrong side of town out.
I have found myself telling ‘her’ that I have to get gas, quit telling me where to drive, I say to the dash.
When I first got it, I was talking to Sue on the phone when ‘she’ wanted me to turn right at the next intersection, Sue said who is that?
‘She’ has no manners at all, when I am talking on the phone, there is no pause in the directions.
I thought it would be neat to have Paula Dean step in and be the voice. “Now Y’all don’t forget to turn right up here”
Maybe it could crack a few jokes on long stretches, call you by name; “Hey Jim, did you hear the one about the GPS that pronounced recalculate Recqualcuate? It was made in Japan..”
You could have a thermostat in it, when it’s hot and you get in the truck, it could tell you to hurry up and turn the A/C on, or tell you around noon to don’t forget to stop for lunch.
On second thought it is irritating enough as it is.