"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 14:45:47 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>> "sf" > wrote in message
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>> > On Fri, 17 Jan 2014 11:58:36 -0000, "Ophelia"
>> > > wrote:
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>> >> "ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
>> >> news >> >> > On Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:38:55 -0800, Roy wrote:
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>> >> >> You carry a GPS with you all the time? Good Heavenly Khrist...never
>> >> >> heard of such a thing.
>> >> >
>> >> > Don't you know that a lot (not all) females suffer from a disease
>> >> > called
>> >> > "Nosenseofdirection"? And I even know some males that suffer from it
>> >> > too.
>> >>
>> >> I most soitenly do
>> >
>> > My husband has a horrible sense of direction.
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>> Fortunately for me, mine has an excellent one)) I reckon your husband
>> and
>> me are very lucky)
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> My husband wasn't convinced that GPS could be useful, because he'd
> read a map and then write the directions on a piece of paper that he
> would pull out of his pocket to consult.
>
> I hate driving around cities I've never been in looking for a store.
> It's too distracting to be looking for the turn, reading your set of
> directions blah, blah, blah... you know how it goes. I was on the
> verge of buying a portable GPS for myself that I could throw in the
> glove compartment to pull out whenever I needed it when we bought a
> new car. Partly due to my incessant harping (and the fact that it was
> a killer deal), he had the package with GPS, satellite radio and a
> fancy CD player (which was the one item he wanted, but couldn't get
> without the other two) installed.

Hahaha husbands are sneak like that<g>

> Well, I LOVE my GPS and satellite radio and since our tour of the USA,
> he does too. We'd just program the GPS for our destination and got
> there without needing to pull over to consult a map. We could also
> drive all day long without needing to search for yet another local
> channel (that we could agree on) with better reception. Life is good!

We have one each and I would really be lost without mine.

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