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  1. #1
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    Default A TRUE story -Bluddy wimmin (again)

    I'm sure every man on this forum has had the same experience as me when it comes to SWMBO and navigation skills - an oxymoron if ever there was one.

    Continually having to stop in Sydney traffic - turn the UBD up the right way - find our current position and then continue on for the next few minutes and then repeat the process.

    Well a brilliant idea jumped into my head - by a GPS - listen to the instructions - at the next roundabout take the third exit - in 200 meters turn left.

    Perfect - no more arguments - a peaceful trip to the city.

    Find the GPS that looks like it will do what we want and set it for our fisrt trip to Sydney.

    Get to Sydney, Turn it on - position located - the voice of a female that seems to know how to navigate - a first.

    In 1.4 kilometers turn left. This is fantastic!!.

    Get 100 meters from the corner we are instructed to turn at and guess what - NO DONT TURN THERE this thing doesnt know what its doing - Go to the next corner. We'll never get there this way -

    Peace shattered after only 87 seconds!!

    I give up!!


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    nuff said
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    You need to mount it upside down....... to make it wife-compatible.
    Chris
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    ....................but it's better than the alternative.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisb691 View Post
    You need to mount it upside down....... to make it wife-compatible.
    +1

    Get an upgrade,,, one that comes with tourettes
    Thank God for senility... now I don't feel so silly any more.

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    I have had to correct many a bloke on the direction we were supposed to be going. Even had to teach one how to bang in a nail. (He was an architect though. ) So don't get all "sweeping statement" with me around.
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    WELL YOU GUYS REALLY ASKED FOR IT NOW,
    I AM SICK AND TIRED OF THIS women cant navigate whine.
    If youse blokes are soooo good, why do you ask us to navigate in the first place. In fact how come you always get to drive?
    (unless its on the way home of course)
    Then we just switch on the automatic pilot DONT WE?

    So what if we turn the map upsided down this actually makes sense.
    Do you EVER admit your lost and ask for directions?

    No, you just drive us and the kids nuts, driving round in circles, or the wrong direction, and we just sit there with a fixed smile cos we darent say" I think It's the other way"

    Women's sense of direction on average is .006 worse than mens (NASSA)
    but of course men did the tests.

    Very cross
    Astrid

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    And men probably designed the GPS.........and the roads...........and the maps. And thought it would be cute for it to have a female voice.

    ..............and all those gadgets that you can never find the off switch for....and ...and.......kitchens and.....cars and.........

    'scuse me. I'm just going to MY shed to calm down.*%#@$^&*(!@
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    Question Gps

    Ha! you think you have troubles now? The police up here think GPS units are as dangerous as amobile phone!!
    Another bloody reason for the Government to rip money from the motoring public!!!

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    Yes. I guess lots of incidents of looking at GPS instead of road. And driving into odd places because of blindly following instructions.
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    If you follow the GPS or whereis directions from my place to anywhere, the first right turn it tells you to make is at a No Right Turn sign.

    And yes, women can navigate, they just do it differently to men. When the army started taking women in to do other than clerical work they had to change the way they taught navigation to accommodate the different styles.
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    Far be it from me to say women cant navigate - my wife can navigate quite well when she's been there before - left at the shopping centre - right at the house with the lovely jacaranda in the front yard - left at the coffee shop that serves the best lemon merangue pie etc.

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    i'm with Astrid on this one. My wife is the greatest navigator that I have ever had. Most of the time I can usually wing it, but in unfamiliar territory she is indispensable.
    I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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    Donna says:"Ahhh Pete, turn left at the streetsign with the red x on it".

    Peter says: "Streetsign, what streetsign"

    ............................................
    I Do agree with astrid

    Was this thread started to get us all biting?..... Worked!

    Donna

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    Gra you and your mates need to go back to the Wood Whispering Women forum.

    HH.
    Always look on the bright side...

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    Do you notice when we start talking navigation it brings out the worst in wimmin trying to defend their upsidedown navigation system.

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