Woman versus navigator

[rimturse]

One my way home from the hospital in Holstebro, I realized that I had forgotten to set up the navigator. Since I'm a bit unfamiliar with the route, I decide to stop at the nearest road side parking and turn it on:

May: *sets navigator for "home"
Navigator: Okay, turn here - and here - and go straight...
May: This doesn't seem right *follows instructions until she realizes that she's heading in the wrong direction*.
Navigator: You mean the hospital is not "home"?
May: Argh! No, and now I just wasted 15 minutes thanks to you. *finds a place to park, types in home address and turns around, getting back onto main road before navigator finishes loading new destination*

All is peaceful for the next 10 minutes.

Navigator: Turn right in this small village.
May: Are you sure? I thought we were supposed to go straight.
Navigator: Turn right. Turn RIGHT. TURN RIGHT!
May: Okay, okay... *turns right into residential area*
Navigator: Good girl! Now turn left onto this dead end road.
May: Right, that does it! *switches off damn thing and drives straight home without further incident*

Comments

[cathemery.livejournal.com]

For some reason no one whose stuff I read posts about how their navigator got them home in record time by a fabulously easy route without a wrong turn or runnining into crazy traffic.

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Me neither!

And they say that the number of people going to wrong way down motorway exits have increased after the navigators became popular.

Hi

[lsw-inthenorth.blogspot.com (from livejournal.com)]

May, Do you live in Jutland? I assumed everyone lived in CPH. I am in Århus (as are quite a few others, I guess you know about that). Do you ever come this way? perhaps we could be in touch. Lucy

Re: Hi

[frigg.livejournal.com]

Hi Lucy,

I'm in Jutland, right in the middle between Herning and Ringkøbing, so it's not too far from Århus. :)