Stupid questions - and how I wish I could answer them (language)

[Deserted]

I have a screenshot.

And you're not posting it why?

[Kit-Ginevra]

It always amazes me when every so often in the news they have to remove some guy in a lorry who's got himself stuck down a country lane because his sat nav sent him there.... and nobody ever thinks 'Hmm...the sat nav says I should be going here.This doesn't look like a motorway,but a path off into the woods about three quarters the size of my vehicle. Maybe I'll get a second opinion before ploughing through the shrubbery'.Nope,it's 'sat nav says here it is,so here I'll go.Crash.Wallop.Bang.'

[Mikkel]

I know a place where the GPS always want me to drive down some stairs to a footpath, but it's still a good help when you go somewhere you haven't been before.
I would miss it, a map is fine and I have one in both my own car and the taxi, but the GPS is so much faster.

[Jay 2K Winger]

It always amazes me when every so often in the news they have to remove some guy in a lorry who's got himself stuck down a country lane because his sat nav sent him there.... and nobody ever thinks 'Hmm...the sat nav says I should be going here.This doesn't look like a motorway,but a path off into the woods about three quarters the size of my vehicle. Maybe I'll get a second opinion before ploughing through the shrubbery'.Nope,it's 'sat nav says here it is,so here I'll go.Crash.Wallop.Bang.'

And that immediately made me think of this Allstate Mayhem commercial.

[Teysa]

These are some questions people have asked me on the train in Alaska this summer.

1. Are we in Canada?
Why yes, sir. The government sold Alaska to Canada to help pay off the national debt.

2. This was asked right before embarking in Seward. Do people live in houses here?
No, everyone lives in tents in the summer and igloos in the winter.

3. This was after being told repeatedly to take their luggage with them after disembarking the train. Do we leave our bags on the train?
Go ahead. I'll just see if there's anything I can use and put the rest on EBay.

[Canadian In Maine]

While working at a small grocery store near Bar Harbor, Maine I had a tourist ask me which beach was closest to the ocean.

I was literally stunned into silence, I was speechless.

[Jester]

I hate it when people I'm giving a ride to, decide to say "Okay, turn here!" just as I'm zipping past their corner.

Back in high school, I was hanging out with Lucy, Sean, and Jenny. Jenny and I were in the back seat, Lucy was driving, and Sean was riding shotgun. As we were zipping along, Lucy said, "Let me know if you see any stop signs." A few moments later, Sean said, "There was one" as we whizzer past it.

Lucy about killed him.

(Jenny and I were cracking up...but quietly, so we didn't piss of Lucy as well.)

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

One of my agents got a call earlier today from a genius asking "See here on the website, where it says e-mail address? Do I need to enter my e-mail address?"

[C. Cecil Ivanish]

I'm disappointed - you should have asked them if they were talking stature miles or nautical miles.

...or Miles Davis. never ignore Miles Davis.

I took to calling the GPS voice "Navi" in those annoying moments.

That's awfully nice of you. I call her something that starts with a C and rhymes with "James Blunt".

[dalesys]

...or Miles Davis. never ignore Miles Davis.

You're just trying to stir up a Bitches Brew? ... or J. Edgar from Live-Evil?

[bbbr]

My family was hosting a high school chorus student from Northern Vermont for a regional chorus event over a weekend about 15 years ago. We took her into Rhode Island (about a 5 minute drive) to go the beaches since hadn't ever seen the Atlantic before. No big deal right up till she said "Oh wow, Rhode Island really is an island!!!" as we crossed the river that makes up the southern border between CT and RI.

That one stopped all conversation as she was (supposedly...) a 4.0 student back in her high school.

[Kit-Ginevra]

To be fair,sometimes you don't realize whereabouts things are especially if you're in another part of the country.I never realized until I went to uni just how close Manchester,Sheffield,Derby and all are,that 10 minutes out of Manchester you can be in the Peaks or how Lincoln is way up past Birmingham(I had it mentally down about Cambridge way)
As far Hawaii,I always had that floating maybe a couple hundred miles off the coast of California-somewhere about where you'd end up if you kept the Alaska border going down south. There's a lot more ocean out there that I expected

[Antares]

Ever had the temptation to enter the lat/long co-ordinates 42°26′05″N 83°59′06″W into his GPS (hint - it's in Michigan, about 15 miles NW of Ann Arbor), then let his GPS tell him where to go?

I've been through there many times. It is as interesting as one would expect.

[Ben_Who]

Google Earth says that a given road in a place I used to live goes straight through when it doesn't.

I should know, I used to live on that street.

When I used Google Maps to try to navigate Los Angeles County, it kept trying to send me through gated communities.

[Kit-Ginevra]

Our satnav did not want us to leave Devon. Halfway across the Tamar Bridge it kept shrieking turn around immediately... we declined... doing a U-turn across two lanes of traffic on a bridge is not a sensible idea