Outside?

[Dadeo]

When they got to Winnipeg the route they were told to follow took them to the Canada/US border rather than taking them into Ontario.

I've done that drive a number of times and it's actually shorter - by about 70km - to go through the States.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

I've done that drive a number of times and it's actually shorter - by about 70km - to go through the States.

Ah. I suppose that's why the GPS took them out of the country; it's programmed to give the quickest route. Thanks for pointing that out to me. I thought it was just some weird burp in the system.

There's still no excuse for the river thing though.

[Dadeo]

There's still no excuse for the river thing though.

Perhaps you had the "Amphibious Vehicle" setting turned on?

[fireheart]

I have a TomTom. My boyfriend has a Garmin. His does not have anything special programmed onto it....yet.

Mine has Homer Simpson programmed into it. With the following phrases:

"Ehh....*nom nom* after THREE hundred metres, go <direction> on the roundabout, <#> exit"

"Take the motorway, woo-hoo!"

"Woohoo, you have reached your destination...and you can hold your head up high because you are a genius!"

My boyfriend's GPS on the other hand....let me preface this one by saying that I live near the Southern Expressway. At the moment, it is a one-way street which changes direction during the day (with an hour warning). During the week, it heads towards the Central Business District (known as the city to us) in the morning, and then southbound in the afternoon. On weekends and public holidays, it goes the opposite way (the idea being that on weekends, people might want to go and have a nice drive in the country).

My boyfriend's GPS didn't recognise that the Expressway was going the opposite way. The WHOLE way back from the movies, his GPS screamed "recalculating" every five seconds.

[Flying Grype]

The only GPS voice kit I ever wanted was sadly just an April Fool's prank.

http://www.diablowiki.net/Deckard_Cain_GPS_Voice_Pack

[Dasota]

A friend of mine had a Mr. T one. I myself loved the "I pity the foo' who don't turn left/right"

[DGoddessChardonnay]

A friend of mine had a Mr. T one. I myself loved the "I pity the foo' who don't turn left/right"

Saw that one online the other day when browsing around.

I have a feeling when I get my Garmin, I wouldn't put it past my sister to download Cartman and install it.

[Miss Maple Leaf]

Okay, now my dad has a GPS for his car that he picked up yesterday at a yard sale.

He's already started pissing it off by programming his final destination into it and running other errands in the same trip, causing it to constantly recalculate directions for him to take.

I was with him this morning (he was home for the weekend) and told him that if he keeps it up, one day the GPS will either shout "fuck it! I quit!" or try to murder him.

Today while taking me home after we went to a flea market in the nearby city, the GPS kept trying to give him directions to Truro (where he was headed after dropping me off but before going home) but which he kept ignoring because he had to take me home first.
This meant that he kept driving past all the turns the GPS was telling him to take, causing it to pick new turns/routes for him, all of which he kept ignoring (we were going the long way home).

Sure enough, at one point the GPS told him to turn left, while we were on the highway, meaning that we would've driven right over the median and straight into traffic going the opposite direction.

He hasn't even had it for two full days yet, and it's already trying to kill him. I knew it would happen eventually, I just wasn't expecting it to happen so soon.

[XCashier]

And if I ever get a GPS, I want Brian Blessed's voice.

I want one with David Tennant's voice.

[Gizmo]

I want one with David Tennant's voice.

I can just see that when you get stuck in traffic though. "You should have just come with me... I do have a spaceship you know!"


Miss Maple Leaf - sometimes my husbands just stops talking to him entirely and I can believe its for the same reason - he never listens to it!

[XCashier]

I can just see that when you get stuck in traffic though. "You should have just come with me... I do have a spaceship you know!"

It'd be worth getting stuck in traffic to hear that!