Monday, September 20, 2010

Loose your way in three easy steps !

Let us face it; I do not exactly have technophobia but I can not be considered a great lover of technology. Even then I have started using a GPS device and have become totally dependent on it to navigate . This was driven home today as I was coming out of the airport after picking up a guest. I must have driven dozens of times in the area but still I managed to loose my way. Simply because I was not carrying my GPS device that I had will fully left at home.  
There are several signs that lead you out of the airport and on to  the highway. Honestly it is quite difficult to take a wrong turn , but I have so gotten used to listening to that synthetic voice command from the GPS that seemingly I have forgotten how to read clear, big ,bold and precise signs that could have easily led me to the right path.

I also have a  superbly printed and deadly accurate city road map in my car that I did not even think of consulting. I virtually refused to believe it existed and when faced with a road that divided in two; I took the wrong one in an attempt to hit a short cut  home. Well the result was as expected.  We finally came out miles from home  and that too in the  opposite direction. Lost!

It felt like India in Kashmir !