GPS makes you dumber

[Kinser79]

(03-22-2017, 06:29 PM)Odin Wrote:

(03-22-2017, 10:02 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: Last Party Congress I went to, a comrade and myself were sent to acquire groceries.  He inisisted on using GPS and the damn machine tried to have us drive over the same out bridge four times.

After driving in circles for five minutes he eventually relented to letting me do the driving.  First thing I did was unplug his GPS and throw it into the back seat.  I found a main road and drove along it until we found said grocery.

Moral of this story...dependence on any form of technology is stupid.

It should be noted that I don't particularly drive very much in my own home area, and that this was clearly not my home area as were on the outskirts of Milwaukee.

Wow, what a stunning lack of common sense, there. I think that is the problem, people have grown to use technology as a magic box and blindly follow the magic box without question. If it tells them to go around in circles they'll go around it circles, like hamsters on a wheel.

Yes well to be fair this particular comrade drew the short straw when it came to having to go with me.  Have I mentioned that I'm incredibly difficult to shop with too?  A list is made every time and it is strictly and dogmatically adhered to.  If it isn't on the list it doesn't get bought.

This same comrade also got lost when we went into Chicago to visit the Haymarket cemetery, again he was following the GPS instead of the written instructions provided by the local comrades.  Fortunately I wasn't going to travel with him in that case.  For two reasons:  Apparently the grocery trip with me shook him up to the point he cried (he was later expelled for cowardice--I may or may not have called him a dumbass 20 or 30 times but I call everyone that at least once a day--they used to call me Red) and  I would have had to ridden in the back seat and for some reason I get car sick easily. 

Figure that out.  Rolling pitching boat no problem.  Back seat of a car--needs barf bag.