As you know, I drive a lot doing In-Home Massage in New Jersey. I wanted to throw my GPS out the window the other day.
A client recently asked why I bother when there’s Waze and other navigation available right in my phone, after I related a story to her about the frustration caused by the GPS unit trying to get to her house.
Really, it’s about safety. I don’t want to use my phone when I’m traveling. If, hopefully not,I have an emergency,I need the phone to be there, fully charged. And, I just don;t want my vital communications decide to be used for anything else.
As you may have guessed,I;m no app addict. I really don’t use my phone for much. I do love computers, but I shun the idea of joining the ranks of digital zombies with tier heads eternally buried in a phone’s glowing screen. Not me, not ever.
Still, my GPS sucks and is a *%&$(%&@(%^*#!! A real monster. It takes me way out of the way. I see the brightly colored path on the highway I’m on. OK; good. But what’s this? The brightly colored band is also on the opposite side of the highway, the side that goes South.
Wouldn’t you know, ten minutes later, I get directed to an exit, only to find myself now going south. I was taken in a giant loop. Of course, I was nonplussed. I almost tossed it. But then, I remembered it may still be under warranty.