The introduction of Mandy in our house has been wonderful. She is always ready to help, and she always keeps her calm. I am of course talking about our GPS, and the voice we chose was called Mandy, so that is its name.
It is very relaxing to be able to just drive, not having to worry about where to turn, or if I turn the wrong way, I can count on her to calmly direct me back on track. While there is no use for Mandy here locally most of the time, her presence has made a big impression on Sarah. She has a lot of questions on how the satellites work, how they can know where we are and how a computer in that little box can have ALL those maps in there. She is truly fascinated (I confess, I am too).
Sarah now talks almost fluent GPS. Even when Mandy is not in use she will go: "Left turn ahead" when we get close to our street. And when we do get to our house, her favorite: "You have reached your destination".
But the other day she almost made Ken drive off the road when she yelled: "Go straight to hell!" After some quick looks back and forth between us (who the heck did she get that language from, it wasn't me!!!), we carefully asked her what she just had said, and again: "Go straight to hell!" She picked up on our startled expressions and said a bit slower: "The road is straight here, so GO STRAIGHT AHEAD". Of course. We and our corrupted minds! :-)
Have a great day!
5 comments:
Hahaha, den var fin!
Min GPS talar alla möjliga språk. Ibland låter jag henne bluddra på på japanska eller koreanska, för en lite asiatisk touch på Autobahn...(dock bara när jag vet vart jag ska, hmmm...)
Ha ha, den var verkligen rolig!! Man hör vad man vill höra (eller inte) ;-)
jag hade en GPS sist jag var i Bradenton. men jag lyckades aldrig skriva in adresser som hade siffror typ 1st street west.
nu behövde jag den när vi skulle till Miami fast det var lite irriterande att inte kunna skriva adresser i Bradenton
Nån som vet hur man gör??
Ska jag bila från Tampa i Maj vill jag nog gärna ha en GPS, helst vill jag ju kunna skriva in korrekt adress å inte nån i närheten
Vi bor på en gata med en siffra som namn, och det är inga som helst problem! Alla amerikanska GPSer har dessa adresser inprogrammerade. Du knappar bara in siffran och du får ett urval av de gator som finns, och sedan är det bara att knappa in gatunummret.
hihi
helt underbart!!!
kramar
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