GPS keeps sending people to my house (#3404) when they are looking for 3504. Some think I’m wrong. They rather believe that little voice than the street numbers.
We had a GPS, which we gave up using because it was always wrong. Not only was it wrong, but if we turned and went the right way, it nagged us and told us to “go back” because we were going the wrong way. All that money spent on a small box with a voice that nagged us to go the wrong way. It’s in some drawer somewhere, most likely with the battery frozen to it because it leaked. My phone, however, IS usually right. However we no longer travel…so we don’t need it. My iPad keeps asking if I want information to go to the last place I spent money and used a store card. Little map under “Google” and everything! Since I don’t take my iPad with me, and my phone is an Android, I’m still working out that puzzle.
@ ladylagomorph76: Man! You need that iPad like you need a ferret in your (fill in the blank with a sensitive, unpleasant-to-be-messed-with place: ear…ice cream…whatever.) It’s corporate America’s Big Brother dream come true. EEEEEEEE!
I actually got directions that included , “Turn left where the junior high school burned down”. Fair enough, I expected a few partial walls standing, if not a still smoking ruin. I almost missed the totally cleared slab almost disappearing as the unmowed grass was mostly hiding it.
beviekIn Dallas, heading south on Ferndale, it changes to Gus Thomasson as you cross East Northwest Highway. At Mesquite, it takes a right angle turn – at a four-point intersection! Gus Thomasson becomes Gross when the rest of Gross enters from the west at another four-point intersection..In your example, they were probably built in those sections and later joined into one, but changing all those addresses seemed even worse. I am on Cedar, but a few blocks north, it takes a jog of about a half block to become part of the equally preexisting Agnew.
LuvThemPluggers over 8 years ago
Enough drivers have GPS in their cell phones these days that it’s really easier to cough up the street address. Not as colorful, though.
Olddog1 over 8 years ago
GPS keeps sending people to my house (#3404) when they are looking for 3504. Some think I’m wrong. They rather believe that little voice than the street numbers.
davidf42 over 8 years ago
Turn right where Johnson’s farm used to be.
Plods with ...™ over 8 years ago
…come to think of it….. You can’t get there from here.
choo choo willy over 8 years ago
The pinkus plasticus flamingus (latin names) are a dead give away.
ladylagomorph76 over 8 years ago
We had a GPS, which we gave up using because it was always wrong. Not only was it wrong, but if we turned and went the right way, it nagged us and told us to “go back” because we were going the wrong way. All that money spent on a small box with a voice that nagged us to go the wrong way. It’s in some drawer somewhere, most likely with the battery frozen to it because it leaked. My phone, however, IS usually right. However we no longer travel…so we don’t need it. My iPad keeps asking if I want information to go to the last place I spent money and used a store card. Little map under “Google” and everything! Since I don’t take my iPad with me, and my phone is an Android, I’m still working out that puzzle.
dogday Premium Member over 8 years ago
@ ladylagomorph76: Man! You need that iPad like you need a ferret in your (fill in the blank with a sensitive, unpleasant-to-be-messed-with place: ear…ice cream…whatever.) It’s corporate America’s Big Brother dream come true. EEEEEEEE!
hippogriff over 8 years ago
I actually got directions that included , “Turn left where the junior high school burned down”. Fair enough, I expected a few partial walls standing, if not a still smoking ruin. I almost missed the totally cleared slab almost disappearing as the unmowed grass was mostly hiding it.
jppjr over 8 years ago
After moving to a new area and getting my case load, the directions to one house was to turn left where the old oak tree used to be…..
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
It’s the 2nd house on the left…
Yakety Sax over 8 years ago
“Go down this street until you come to the last stop sign and then hang a right”.
hippogriff over 8 years ago
beviekIn Dallas, heading south on Ferndale, it changes to Gus Thomasson as you cross East Northwest Highway. At Mesquite, it takes a right angle turn – at a four-point intersection! Gus Thomasson becomes Gross when the rest of Gross enters from the west at another four-point intersection..In your example, they were probably built in those sections and later joined into one, but changing all those addresses seemed even worse. I am on Cedar, but a few blocks north, it takes a jog of about a half block to become part of the equally preexisting Agnew.