Warning! Do not rely too heavily on your GPS

I have no benefits and if the boss decides i should be fired for some reason, I guess i should ask if i am fired from one or both stores, but either way, im sure my job is preytty secure because i can articultate words and whatnot. I like the words, "whatnot and nonsense". I say those words a lot instead of the profanitites that all the other employees say

 

we have vastly different opinions on the meaning of the phrase ''dangerous situation''

 

While i have my share of experience with pizza places they were all before gps. But i was going to a concert at a place i never been to before. I always print out a paper copy from mapquest on top of using my garmin. This time however i didnt...for some reason when i went on mapquest i just printed out the directions from the hotel to the venue. So i am going into DC and taking the gps turn for turn and the farther i drive the more rural shit is looking and im looking at my eta and its not leaving a lot of time to stop at the hotel first. Then i get to the destination and its just some house in the middle of nowhere. I dont know what to do because i dont know any other addresses in the area. I put in the address of the hotel instead of the venue and i can tell its wrong just by looking at it. Then i try typing in the name of the hotel and it seemed to work so i head off. I got to the hotel checked in and started walking to the venue so i could drink at the show. As i went two blocks i realized it was farther than i though. So i start running calling cabs as i am running. Meantime following the map with all sorts of complicated turns because some roads dont allow pedestrians. So after running two miles stopping only to call cabs i get there about 40 minutes late and the opening band is still on (didnt even know there was an opening band that night) they sucked so i didnt miss anything but it was close and stressfull.

 

^ lol

 

wow that is weird...ive never seen that system used

here is odds on one side ..even on the other...and no reason to which side..i guess the developer or city planner/permit person or first house there got to decide odd/even when they picked a number

also its law to have clear visible numbers on the house...rural addresses get really nice reflector numbers at the driveway paid for by the city when we got 911 services

 

No the funny part was the walk back to the hotel. Lost the map and i just started walking at one point i passed the same building 3 times. I know i was close a couple times because i saw stuff that i remembered from on the way there but one of those chained off highways kept getting in my way. Twice cops pulled up asked what i was doing and gave me directions. Im not sure how long it took me but i know it was over an hour to walk 2 miles

 

if your passing the same shit 3 times your obviously going in circles...there are often many routes to a destination, many of them you will not want to take.

 

Specifically, if you had gotten your location in longitude and latitude, you'd have gotten to your location without having to call and without redneck adventures. You are correct, GPS will usually do really well with public locations, but the more rural you get, the less accurate.

 

one more post..

GPS's have screwed me over on more than a dozen occasions, both handheld GPSr and car GPS, Garmin, Magellen, tomtom, all of them, sometimes little things like taking me to closed stores cause of outdated software, to one time a cliffs edge on my handheld GPS when It was saying it was a ridge..to reading I was on a surface street 4 blocks over when I was on the freeway..I have a little Garmin Nuvi and I just about skipped it off the road the other day..POS..Map is a way more sure thing

 

Seen the Grateful Dead 113 time without the assistance of a GPS.. We used LSD, it got us there.

 

back in the early days of mapquest I tried to mapquest directions to Six Flags in Atlanta and ended up in a really, really bad part of town. The ATL gets pretty hood and I was in the worst of it. I've pretty much stuck with using good ol' fashioned maps since then.

 

I believe this..you are never lost when you are tripping and you always end up where you need to be..

 

I was a passenger and the person driving swore by their GPS. We ended up in the middle of no where on a service road that almost took out the bottom of the car.

Yup, for me a map works fine.

 

They have a map but it's hard as shit to read. It's actually a LOT faster to program the address into my GPS and go for it. I'm starting to learn roads I frequent a lot, though, and don't need the GPS for all of them.

I am indeed, but it's very much part-time. I'm a cashier/"waitress" (not much waiting tables involved, but I get decent tips for a min. wage employee) full-time and deliver when I'm needed in the evenings. I've been banking some overtime and the $2 delivery fees go directly in our pocket, so on top of tips, it's a fucking awesome paying job. We don't get a huge amount of deliveries, honestly, and there are normally two drivers on evening shifts. It's a locally owned pizza place, I work with the owner every day (there are 3 stores in the franchise but I work at the main store). It's not a bad gig, it pays a little less than Dairy Queen, but a helluva lot more than unemployment was paying.

 

yeah, i've seen this. i was driving down the freeway in the west virginia mountains with my parents and my mom's gps suddenly decided that we had jumped to the surface street a quarter mile over and about 100 feet down the mountain. i feel like the gps was kind of rude just telling us to make a u-turn, it really should have been asking if we were ok and if we needed medical help after that fall down the mountain.

 

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I used the gps the other day. It showed me where the destination was and had a dot for my location. So I figured out that I needed to go up one block and over 3 or something like that. When I get almost to it I pull out the GPS again and now it says my locatin is even further away that it was when I started.

Now I was starting to get irritated that but think there's no way that that could be the case it just didn't make sense. So I look close at the map and notice that where it says I was wasn't even where I was actually at. It was actually around the next corner.

 

I use gps and/or google maps to map out runs in the city but I do not really like it. I click on the walking (running) tab. But It often gives somewhat indirect routes or incorrect ones (ones with no sidewalk or restricted route). I always find myself manually rerouting for more effecient route, which, in the end, kind of defeats the purpose of gps which is supposed to take care of all that.

Wonder if anyone has found something better than google maps? some of the quirks, etc. are kind of counter intutiave and rerouting sometimes is a pain.

 

This is bad news for me. I'm soooooo bad with directions. I get lost all the time in New York City which is a gride / block system hahah so sad.