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Pot. Kettle. Black.
Obligatory “Giving Gregory Grief Over His GPS (Global Positioning System)”
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* From the “Flogging the Dead Horse” Department [1]
* I don't mean anything by this; it's just an observation, that's all. [2]
* Monkeys [3]
I've given Gregory [4] grief in the past for his reliance (to me, his
overreliance) on GPS when driving, and this issue has been coming up on our
little trip often enough. As we drove back to the hotel from Joe's house, I
noticed that Gregory's GPS was sending us cross-country along unlit two lane
roads filled with deer instead of the 10-lane well lit I-10, much like last
time [5] (unstated in that entry—everyone in the van was telling Gregory his
GPS was giving him crap directions, stop listening to it, we know the way).
When I mentioned this, Gregory told us that he has an irrational fear of
being lost, and with a GPS, he's never lost, even if the route given isn't
the fastest, straightest or safest. I can relate to the irrational fear bit—I
have an irrational fear of earthquakes; odd, given that I don't live in an
area known to have earthquakes, but there you go. If the GPS makes Gregory
feel better, so be it.
Besides, I still can't play that peg game [6] at the Cracker Barrel [7], and
I totally rely upon a cheat sheet created from my peg game solving program
[8].
[1]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/12/03.1
[2]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/06/30.2
[3]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2007/07/01.1
[4]
http://corsair2.livejournal.com/
[5]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/05/28.1
[6]
http://www.crackerbarrel.com/games-kids.cfm?doc_id=42
[7]
http://www.crackerbarrel.com/
[8]
gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2005/03/18.1
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