Starting from a very cynical base and not wanting to be deskilled by
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a mere piece of software my wife and I resisted initially buying and then using the GPS.
Mostly I drove and she navigated. This worked amazingly well. She had her head in the map book for fifty percent of the time and honed her map reading skills, always of course combined with the need to turn the book so that the direction of the line of the map corresponded with the direction of the actual road, to perfection.
On those rare occasions when roles were reversed my impoverished, unhoned, map reading skills compounded by my time consuming need to put my glasses on to read the map and take them off to read signpost plus and my insistance on demonstrating my manly superiority by not turning the map book led to some pretty extreme statements re-my limitation in general.
Now of course it's GPS, GPS, GPS all the way (with apologies to Jingle Bells).
The thing is the masochist in me misses the emotional intensity of the old pre-GPS days.
I am sure I'm not the only one who finds the bland or even perpetually accommodating GPS voice unsatisfying. I'd at least like to hear some exasperation in the voice after I've turned the wrong way for a second time and on occasion the odd criticism or expletive would let me know I was in the real world.
Once again with feeling?
Bill
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