Monday, September 26, 2005

GPS?

Scenario:
premise:
- driving, from home to, say, place-A you kind of know how to reach there. last you visited was 2-3 years back!
- you are on speaker phone, since hands free is enforced by law.
- place X is where you have never been to, neither you know directions to, nor where it is.
- you will be given directions when you drive to place X on phone.
- It's raining badly.
- the day is weekend.

goal:
- you need to reach from place A to place X.

thinkable outcome:
- the road, you are on, vanishes out of sight all of sudden and you end up turning on a street you think may lead you to highway.
- you get confused on a small road: seemingly a ramp, leading to highway and a sign right at the curve- 'no outlet'.
- you get so many honks from drivers behind you.
- you end up going straight on a one-way exit ramp, driving in wrong direction!
- you don't want to go to place X.
- you start crying.

Is this possible? In this universe, it actually happened not too far ago, on Sept 24, 2005..
but place X was visited finally..

11 comments:

Geo said...

Ha ha ha... NIce experience except for that 'you start crying' part of it... right?

anyways... u made it finally...

and be assured that you are not alone in missing directions on ur way to unknown terrain :_)

Wanna have a look at my experience ?

sensiblystoned said...

hehe :) I havent tried out any GPS thingy but so far Im doing good with google maps. But then when you are visiting new places or on a long journey discovering new places, then not having a GPS might be a problem :)

venus said...

geo:
I have been in this city for over 5 years, and this can still happen!! A city has a lot to give you :)

sensiblystoned:
I have not used gps personally, but one of my friends has a voice enabled GPS, and having this passenger sit exerience, I think it would be very useful.

gulnaz said...

:)))

. : A : . said...

Gone are those days of stopping and asking for directions (and sometimes getting the wrong ones)!

:-)

-Poison- said...

hehe..i hate askin for directions n usually end up takin unwanted detours..

Khakra said...

how about making your next stunt riding all the way upto everest to prove you are the daredevi of them all

chick pea said...

have gps, finds my way around this city...kinda dependent on it.. bad.. yeah..but hell i paid for it, so put it to some use

venus said...

gulnaz:
thanks for stopping by!

A:
GPS is replacing em, kind of, but when the maps aren't updated ones.. u can't :)

poison:
that's a true refletion of martian behavior!!

khakra:
daredevi, haha, I would love to go, but you know, they have waiting list for Mt Everestof over 25 yrs for the Mt Everest if you register today! if you can get me on the top of the list, I am ready to go today! :)

venus said...

cheak pea:
Thank you for stopping by, you have an interesting blog too!
Yeah, I guess, for people from venus, like me and you, would love GPS.

Anonymous said...

Well you wanted to go to X in the first place.. and you reached there... so goal accomplished aye ??