[gps-talkusers] giving dirrections:

  • From: "Mary Ellen Earls" <meearls@xxxxxxx>
  • To: <gps-talkusers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 09:23:28 -0700

I actually had a cab driver not too long ago who was honest enough to tell me he had no idea where I wanted him to take me and I said I could get us there and he wanted to know where I got my gps. I have the feeling that man spent an entire weekend going to every electronic store inquiring where he could get the Sendero Gps. There is also the opposite in which I had a cabbie tell me to put that thing away because it didn't know anything. That was what he said. He was a foreigner and Foreigners in my experience 1. don't like blind people especially women who can tell them how to get places and2, the unpardonable sin is if that blind woman happens to have a dog guide with her. Horror of horrors!

The guy really got mad when I kept telling him he was going the wrong way.
He actually got on his radio and told the dispatcher that I was telling him how to get where we were going. Hurray for the dispatcher he said "Well she ought to know, listen to her."
So the guy was left not too happy for himself.

And you have my family who think that the gps is either an expensive toy or fine for the pizza delivery man. I still say I saw more of Hawaii than my family just by reading the POI(s) as we passed them.

Well about all from here.
Mary Ellen Earls

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