MisterShouty

Several areas within the field of Satellite Navigation (or “GPS” for our American viewers) annoy the everloving fuck out of me. Let’s start with a really annoying one:

Why the fuck do people buy a navigation device, and then refuse to use it?

I have lost count of the number of times that people that I KNOW for a FACT have GPS navigation capable devices get lost in the middle of nowhere, or turn up to an appointment a fucking HOUR late because they “couldn’t find” the location.

I mean, are you just lying?
Or are you a complete fucking retard?
One of these things MUST be true.

Even everyone’s PHONE now has GPS Navigation, and it’s not like the early days of phone navigation apps, where they were still working out the bugs or still trying to get the data up to date and accurate. Literally everyone has either Apple or Google maps in the POCKET now. There is just no excuse anymore.

Next, we have those people that claim to be unable to “work out” how to use a navigation device. Even though, the process is always the same.

You press “Enter Destination”.
You type a post code.
You press “Go”.

Literally that simple. I’m not exaggerating when I say that I could punch people right in the throat when they offhandedly say that they “can’t use” a SatNav. You’re not that stupid. You simply cannot be. You are stubborn and idiotic, yes. But stupid to the point that you can’t press 2 buttons? It’s just not possible.

That brings us to the people that CHOOSE to NOT use GPS Navigation. They “know what they’re doing”. They think there is some bravado to claiming to know how to find a place, probably because they so much lack any real achievement in life that this insignificant, bullshit ability seems important to them.

So, off they go, unaided, and without fail, end up lost. THEN, they’re on the phone to ME asking to be directed to their destination, somehow expecting me to have some psychic ability to know exactly where they are – even though the best they can give you at this point is “I’m lost. I have NO IDEA where I am!”.

Great. So how can I give you directions if I don’t have ANY INFORMATION about your current location? You fucking moron.

But by far the most annoying aspect in this area is the purposeful misuse of these devices. There are several people that I know, who will set up their navigation device at the start of a journey, and then proceed to ARGUE with the fucking thing at every turn.

Newsflash: You do not have more information in your head than this device has in it’s memory. If it tells you to go a certain way, it’s because that is shorter or faster. That is a fact. You may THINK another way would be quicker, but you are wrong. Yes. It’s possible for YOU to be WRONG.

So, these people make a conscious decision to go against the route that the SatNav is telling them. Then will they will complain about getting lost, BLAMING the SatNav and conveniently forgetting that they ignored it’s route in the first place.

What’s more, this whole debacle just leads to them being late, or lost, which all leads to the additional annoyances outlined in the first half of this rant!

Please, for the love of God, USE your navigation device/app.
And when you use it, PAY ATTENTION to it.

You do not know the roads better than it does. You do not have a better understanding of the current traffic than it does. Stop being an arrogant twat, in just ONE area of your life and maybe you’ll be slightly less annoying to everyone around you.

~ by mistershouty on November 29, 2018.

Posted in Consumer, driving, General Misery, People Skills, Technology, Traffic, Web
Tags: drivers, driving, Garmin, GPS, maps, navigation, People Skills, phones, satellite navigation, SatNav, tech, Technology, TomTom