Not a surprise. What's the problem?
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Navigation Directions
The phrase my GPS says most often:
"Recalculating.........recalculating......"
In a related story......
Selected from the other offerings on the same page, a story from Singapore.
A Thai couple who had sex in a public park on Sunday evening were each fined $1,000 on Tuesday.
Ngernthaisong Phichet, 36, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, Phloetphrao Somphan, 35, pleaded guilty to committing an obscene act at Harmony Hub along Beach Road at about 11pm.
A magistrate's court heard that an auxiliary policeman was patrolling near Beach Road when he heard sounds coming from the nearby bushes inside Harmony Hub.
He shone the torchlight towards the bushes and found the naked couple having sex.
Somphan was here on a social visit pass.
They could have been jailed for up to three months and/or fined.
Three months in jail would seem like a picnic compared to what they will get from their respective spouses!
They should have taken some flagging and a chain along so they could claim they were surveying.
Navigation Directions
LOL so true ...
I took a right coming home from Caddo Mills last night when my GPS said to go straight. It recalculated and immediately dropped 10 minutes off my ETA. I think I was in Quinlan at the time.
James
That's because the navigational directions in my vehicles is usually coming from my wife.
One time, she and the kids went to visit her parents down near San Bernadino (about an hour, hour and a half NE of LA). There are two major N-S highways in the central valley of CA. All she had to do was get on I-5, drive North until she got to Sacramento, turn right and then she's on completely familiar roads. So what happened? About the time I was expecting her home, I get a call.
She: "I don't know where I am."
Me: "How can that be? Last I talked to you, you were on I-5 north of Bakersfield."
She: "I know... but nothing looks familiar."
About now I'm beginning to suspect what happened. I-580 splits from I-5 about 20 miles south of Stockton and heads over to the Bay area.
Me: "Do you see any exit signs or signs telling you how many miles to the next town?"
She: "No. I don't know! Just tell me how to get home!!! Oh, wait."
A few seconds go by
She: "I think I just passed Livermore."
Suspicion confirmed. She is on I-580, about an hour west of I-5. Got her turned around and home. Was in trouble because if I had just gone to visit her parents with her none of this would have happened...
Anyway, I don't let her navigate, or at least I don't listen when she does. As a result, she only knows I'm ignoring her when she's wrong.
In our family, I hate to waste time driving in circles, so if i find myself doing that, I'll find a gas station or a store and ask directions. If Natasha hadn't gotten hold of me that time, she would have driven all night rather than ask a stranger for directions.
Of course.
I have been using DeLorme for 10 years. I often find its' routing to be less than optimal. I just place a few Via's where necessary. I have also done the same with MS Streets and Trips.
then there is the problem with the address that exists but is not in the database.
My Mom drove all the way down to San Jose and couldn't find my sister's house. She had let her "pay-as-you-go" cell phone lapse. Pay phone? Forget it, they don't exist. She drove all the way back home, meanwhile me and 2 brothers and 1 sister were frantically looking for her.
After that, I put her on my cell phone plan and she has been good about keeping it charged etc. Comes in handy to track down what crazy direction she wound up in this time.
I was cruising north on I-5 coming back from many trips to the same project. I am driving along when I notice an unfamiliar warehouse off to the left. Oh dang-it, I missed the I-580/I-5 split (you have to take an exit to stay on I-5). That cost me an hour struggling back over to I-5 on I-205 through Tracy.
So you went south through Wills Point instead of across the lake and on through Tyler.
Definitely shorter distance.
Actually, after looking at the map, I was in Wills Point and the GPS wanted me to go Hwy 80 to Hwy 19 south. I turned on 64 and went straight to Canton saving 10 minutes. 90 miles farther south on 19 and I'm home.
James
