Yesterday I got a little lost on the way home from the flea market because I wanted to stop at Savers and drop off a few of my flea market leftovers. I was almost there but I took a turn too early and tried to drive a bit to see if I could figure out an alternate way to get there but I couldn’t get it. So I had to pull into a gas station to turn on Google Maps on my phoney for help. There’s this one intersection in West Springfield and the GPS told me, “Stay to the right, then go straight on River St.”
When it told me that, there were 2 lanes, so I assumed it wanted me to stay in the right lane because the left lane was going to be left turn only for that intersection. And then I came to the intersection and of course the signs were all crooked so I couldn’t really tell which one was River St, and now there was a third lane for a right turn. But since it told me to go straight, I kept going straight. But that wasn’t River St. River St was the street to the right! But I swear, it was telling me to go straight! It’s like, why not just tell me to turn right on River St?! <cue Timon level freakout with lots of high pitched anger and hyperventilation>
Then I had to drive and drive and drive all kinds of convoluted ways to get back to where I was supposed to be all because fooey GPS couldn’t give me clear directions.
And the moral of the story is: this is why I try not to overly rely on GPS.
Also, note to GPS makers, it is not helpful to say as a starting direction, “Go North towards X street.” Um, I generally don’t know what direction my car is in when I’m pulled over parked somewhere, ’cause y’know, I’m lost. So can we please change that to right or left or straight or something so I’m not staring at the map for a disproportionate number of minutes trying to remember which way I came from while crossreferencing the path the GPS wants me to take to make sure I’m not going backwards? 😝