Fred Basset by Alex Graham for April 11, 2010

Apparently not. Good luck, Fred.

It’s just north of Seven Kings Railway Station, right before Cambridge Road.

The GPS unit knows all!

I am French. I am on vacation. Sorry. See no begging for money here.

Speaking of being French and being on vacation, I hate getting trapped on those roads built by that Frenchman named “Detour”!!

(Maybe I need to explain this joke since Fred Basset is an English comic strip. Maybe detours are an ‘Americanism’. It’s a temporary road or route around some road construction project. There are signs beside the road saying “DETOUR” and an arrow pointing which way to go. It’s often over some pretty low grade roads.)

Will you guys/gals trust the GPS?

More than I’ll trust most people one asks along the side of the road!

NOW do you ladies here understand why guys don’t like to stop and ask for directions?

Confession. I have purposely given rude drivers wrong directions. Maybe they guess the truth on Town Dump Rd.

It doesn’t sound like a new road. They should have gone to mapquest or other online site to get their directions. A map will be hard to read, esp for those two, and no, I wouldn’t trust a GPS. Too much bad experience with that piece of neo-technology. I trust the census more, and that’s saying very little.

I had a cheap GPS and was constantly trying to make my own detours since it would want me to take my truck right through your, maybe, neighborhood. I finally gave up and spent the three hundred needed for a proper unit for big trucks. Still, unless it was updated yesterday, there are constant changes to roads.

Also, how many Chinamen named Ped Xing are there? Please, no offense intended.

I think Farley lane is where the Pattersons live. Try FOOB.

I am sure y’all remembered that the senior citizen couple who live in WA., got lost in winter storm near Mt. St. Helen or other Mt. They used the GPS that tricked them to get into lost but they were found safely. They never wanted the GPS anymore.

Mr Doty, according to http://babelfish.yahoo.com/ what the Frenchman says translates as, “I am French, I am, sorry on holiday.” Nothing there about asking for money.

No, they took it from Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.

The babel fish in my ear goes to sleep when my honey talks in worktodo.

Lewreader, love it. Make sure to check out Birdbrains on your way out. There’s a comment for you from Thom.

Get a Tomtom, Pops!

I remember a Fred Basset from years ago where the editor ‘flipped’ the drawings to put the driver on the left (American or continental) side of the car. The wife was holding the road atlas which included the ‘flipped’ map of Britain and Ireland!