Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for August 25, 2014

I’ve never had to reboot my phone in the year and a half that I’ve owned it, which strikes me as odd.

How far did she walk and she still has power?

Turn the @#$%^ off and enjoy nature.

Welcome to California Janis.

She must be using Apple Maps.

Maybe Wile E. Coyote could guide her back home.

I know Mr. Johnson is just making a point with this, but where the heck do A&J live? I thought it was somewhere southeast U.S….

Google Maps has magically restored forest roads in NM that haven’t existed in 30 years. Fortunately, the access to these phantom freeways has been fenced off so the unwary can’t stumble into these sandy traps.

Reboot? Are they going to restart this strip from the beginning? … Oh, wait. … Never mind.

“Toto, I don’t think we’re near the Gulf Coast anymore”

She sure likes her phone..

I was told to reboot every day.

I don’t have one of those artsy-tartsy phones, but via my computer, MapQuest indicated that to leave my home and go west, I should enter a no-outlet parking lot of a middle school. I pointed this out to them online, they said they’d check it out, and a couple of weeks later they changed the map.

My sister gave me a new paper map a few years ago. On a walk I tried to go through a newer neighborhood to shave a few miles off, and at the other end I saw a small sign: “Your GPS is wrong. Road closed.” I looked it up later and it is actually an undeveloped public road. As a pedestrian, I had a right to walk it, even if the property owner didn’t like it.

But… she’s not wearing any boot straps, let alone boots.

Yeah!

such language young lady!

I hate to tell you, but that’s not a logging road, it’s a state highway. And yes, it’s closed in winter and people who should be Darwin award winners do just as you state.Paper maps say closed in winter. GPS’s do not.

Never thought of her having a potty mouth. What if young ones were around in the back ground picture??

At least she said it in symbols. ;-)

True story – we were going someplace out of state. We looked up where to eat along the road and had a specific MdDonalds noted as in correct place. (Diabetic and must eat on schedule.)

We were heading west, McD on south side of road. We got to the exit and at bottom of ramp GPS said to turn right (north) at light. Told husband to turn left, we turned right. GPS sent us 3 blocks north, had us turn right, go one block, turn right and sent us to where street ends at original road we were on. It then had us make a Uturn, then turn into the back of a shopping center, drive around the edge of the stores, and go into the front parking lot. This put us adjacent to the road we had turned onto originally. It then told us to turn, yes, left onto the road to head south. Unfortunately it was too large a road to turn left onto and we had to wait sometime and then make an unsafe turn, all because he listened to the GPS and not me.

This particular GPS seems to like to send us through parking lots and has done so several times. We no longer use it.