I bought a Garmin nuvi 200 GPS a few weeks ago and I'm just getting used to it. Most of our trips have been around town, so that GPS has been more of a novelty than a necessity. I love gadgets that make our lives just a little easier. To think that I wouldn't have to ask for directions anymore... several times because I forget the directions after three turns. What freedom!
Yesterday, my wife and I decided to go to Best Buy to get a case for my HTC S710 cell phone (great gadget). I knew that Best Buy carried a case that fit the phone perfectly, but the local store didn't have the case in stock . I found a near-by Best Buy in the "Points of Interest" in the GPS and off we went. Everything went great. Turn right here, merge there, left than right, and so on until finally it announced that our destination was on the left.
We looked to the left, then to the right, but there is no sight of a Best Buy, not even a store that used to be a Best Buy. That wiz-bang gadget lead me on a wild goose chase. I was sad and disillusioned; my beloved new gadget was not to be trusted. To think of the sales pitch I told my wife so I could buy it, how it tracks our every move, how it has a massive data base with restraurants, stores, gas stations, and tourist stops, and how we wouldn't get lost anymore. There she sits, right next to me, seeing everything, what could I say? Will I ever be able to buy another gadget?
She says, "I think there is a Best Buy next to the Babies R'Us several miles south of here." She was right, the GPS was wrong, a total technology meltdown.
Alas, all is not lost. This morning in the Sunday ads there is a better GPS that has a bigger data base and announces the street names and syncs with my cell phone. The problem was that I didn't spend enough money to get the right gadget. I wasn't the gadget's fault, it was mine for putting such unrealistic expectations on the cheaper model. I feel better now.
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