1. I know how to read maps
2. My new shoes are waterproof
3. The weather was unusually beautiful today
4. My MacBook will be here in 3-5 days
5. My husband is making fish tonight
Get out the map. My husband really wants a GPS. He wants that bossy, accented voice to tell him to turn left and sound very miffed when he doesn't. And then that bossy, accented voice (Australian, perhaps?) will say, "Recalculating."
I don't believe in GPS systems. I think that a GPS system will find the most ridiculous way for me to get from here to the drugstore and I will disagree with that GPS system. Why? Because I know how to read maps and I drove cross-country long before GPS systems and so did my parents. We believe in AAA.
So tonight, on the last leg of our run when we were both wishing our new shoes weren't so new, these two guys in an SUV pull up and say that they're sure the GPS is screwing with them, because they're looking for the Cheers bar in Boston. Well I know where the Cheers bar is - it's at the corner of Beacon and Brimmer right off the Boston Common in Beacon Hill. And it's absolutely, positively nowhere near where we live in Hyde Park. But, like many people do, they punched the number into their GPS and trusted that they would find that Boston landmark right here in Hyde Park. So after much pointing and street name reciting, we sent them on their way to find Cheers bar. And I giggled the whole way home.
So learn to read maps, friends. I'm going to eat the delicious dinner that my husband is preparing.
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