Driving Directions Gone Bad

[hotelnpa]

This "guest" comes up to the front desk and rudely asks me the address of a local restaurant. I give it to her. (I guess looking the phone book provided in each room was too hard.)

5 minutes laters she comes during a busy time when people are checking out and DEMANDS I give her directions. Apparently the Garmin GPS thingee didn't have the address in their system.

The Pittsburgh area can be a tad confusing because of the hills and twisting streets that end and start over again. But this wasn't the case at all. This was simply driving from one interstate exit to the next.

I verbally gave the directions first but she wanted me to draw a map. It was getting busy and a line was forming so I suggested Googling the directions on the lobby computer. She loudly says "If it wasn't on Garmin, it won't be on Google!!!"
She wanted me to draw a map.

So I drew the simple map with interstate 79 and exit she needs to get off. The bit@H started to add ff'in streets I didn't even draw. She said "What's that street?" I turn left? What's this? (The interstate....what else...geesh)"

She even started to confuse me. I was going to draw her a new map because she fuc##ed up the original map. She said no, just tell her.

A couple of minutes later, she tells me I needed to be clear in the future and give more accurate directions. I apologized and told was just trying to help. Then what came next was a shock. She said "Fuck you!" and stormed off.

[protege]

Uh, she got lost on I-79? Pardon my French, but how the fuck is that even possible? Looking at the map, it's roughly a straight freaking line! Granted, I've lived here for 30+ years, but still. Getting lost on I-79 has to be a new one

Of course if we really wanted to have fun...send her into Washington County. To continue south on I-79...you have to run east over I-70 for a bit

[hotelnpa]

Uh, she got lost on I-79? Pardon my French, but how the fuck is that even possible? Looking at the map, it's roughly a straight freaking line! Granted, I've lived here for 30+ years, but still. Getting lost on I-79 has to be a new one

Of course if we really wanted to have fun...send her into Washington County. To continue south on I-79...you have to run east over I-70 for a bit

LOL...yeah you know how confusing it is from Exit 41 to Exit 45! That's where she was going. A simple drive you would think.

I don't knew if she even made it there. She probably ended up in Erie or got off on some totally unrelated highway. HAHA Can only wish!

[Crossbow]

LOL...yeah you know how confusing it is from Exit 41 to Exit 45! That's where she was going. A simple drive you would think.

I don't knew if she even made it there. She probably ended up in Erie or got off on some totally unrelated highway. HAHA Can only wish!

WTF? I'm not from the area and even I can figure that out. Oh, wait. That's right. I don't have the IQ of an eggplant. Never mind.

[Sheldonrs]

WTF? I'm not from the area and even I can figure that out. Oh, wait. That's right. I don't have the IQ of an eggplant. Never mind.

HEY!!! Eggplants may not be smart but they're tasty!!! And I've never heard an aggplant say "Fuck you"! So you apologize to my tasty friends or we'll get babaganush on your ass!!!!!

[morgana]

\ we'll get babaganush on your ass!!!!!

You might have to feed it to them first. And hide the toilet paper.

[VenomX]

I live right in the area of I-79/I-70. I HATE giving directions because they never understand the I-79 to I-70 back to I-79 part.

[smileyeagle1021]

I live right in the area of I-79/I-70. I HATE giving directions because they never understand the I-79 to I-70 back to I-79 part.

salt lake is the same... try telling people that they have to go 80east to 15south to 80east... or worse "continue straight on the 201 east to 80 east".

[Sarlon]

um...not to sound to much on the SC's side...and of course this may not be true in PA...

down south....and i think most interstates down south in Franklin, and VA the exits are based on their mile markers. exit 6 may not have an exit 7 next if its over a mile away.

When I went up north its completely different....exit 6 could have 3 miles between it and exit 7 and still be exit 7...where as down here the next exit 3 miles down the road from exit 6 is exit 9.

am I making any sense?

[VenomX]

um...not to sound to much on the SC's side...and of course this may not be true in PA...

down south....and i think most interstates down south in Franklin, and VA the exits are based on their mile markers. exit 6 may not have an exit 7 next if its over a mile away.

When I went up north its completely different....exit 6 could have 3 miles between it and exit 7 and still be exit 7...where as down here the next exit 3 miles down the road from exit 6 is exit 9.

am I making any sense?

Pa changed to that system a few years ago. Now exits are all numbered after the mile marker they are closest too.

[wolfie]

Too bad you're in the wrong part of the country. That type of SC deserves driving directions that include the line "Get on I495, and continue to the end". For those who aren't familiar with the Maryland/Virginia area, I495 doesn't have an end - it's the ring road around a place that started as a malarial swamp and then deteriorated (Washington DC).

[Jay 2K Winger]

Too bad you're in the wrong part of the country. That type of SC deserves driving directions that include the line "Get on I495, and continue to the end". For those who aren't familiar with the Maryland/Virginia area, I495 doesn't have an end - it's the ring road around a place that started as a malarial swamp and then deteriorated (Washington DC).

Yup. There's a reason why the two directions of I-495 are called the "Inner Loop" and the "Outer Loop."

[Chromatix]

The M25 (the Orbital Motorway around London, aka "Orbital Car Park") is like that - it has "clockwise" and "anticlockwise" directions.

However, it *does* have a short piece of A-road on the eastern side, where it crosses the Thames. So technically there are two ends to the M25.

Helsinki has three ring-roads, but because the city centre is built on a peninsula, none of them are full circles.

[BethB]

Sooooo....putting the physical address in the Garmin wasn't an option??
Apparently she doesn't know how to use her GPS cuz I have a Garmin and it's not that difficult. Looking up the restaurant's name doen't always help. I tried looking up Dunkin Donuts on mine and it said the nearest one was 50 miles away in Denver when I know there are several here.

[JLRodgers]

I was once visiting a friend working at a hotel and someone came in to ask for directions to enter in their GPS for a restaurant. My friend tried to say without making the person feel dumb that it was on the other side of the street, no GPS coordinates were needed. I was impressed with their ability to find it in only two tries.