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I love my satnav being a person who has turned getting lost into an art form. However, I have started talking back to it. The other day it said "Turn Right in a third of a mile" and when I got there it said," Turn Right".
"What now?" I asked.
Does anyone else talk to theirs.
I also thought they could be more user friendly and have the words to reflect at least the male perspective and to make him feel at home.
If you turn the wong way for example the voice could say, " I said turn right. Didn't I tell you to turn right but oh no, you've been to busy with your mind on other things to listen to me."
Or "Where the hell do you think you're going?"
Or, "Do a U turn now you twit".
Or "You deaf or something".
Stuff like this I think would keep the male at ease with familar phrases.
Our Fanny Liz doesn't like being called back to duty on long motorway trips. She goes off for coffee as soon as we turn onto the slip road and woe betide us if we call her back before the next planned move - if we turn off into a service station for example. She can be quite sharp with her instructions then. You can hear the " Where do you think you're going ? " in her voice.
We also have a German Blaupunkt satnav which is much more polite and says Please turn right and so on ! We don't use him I'm afraid as Fanny Liz is one of the family now.
My MIO 286 is called Mildred on a good day and other things on bad days, she has a wicked sence of humour and sends me places ai would never think of going
Puss, you just love a strict woman, you need a Cynthia (as in Payne) to order you about, sounds like a German model would be perfect. You Vill Turn Right
My Garmin got itself in a wonderful tizzy when I used it to get me to Manston Airport one time. I mean, I knew the route but like to have the thing on in case I have to divert for whatever reason.
Manston Airport....great little place but anyone who has ever used it will know the last mile or so is all little lanes till you get to the entrance and then lots of little mini roundabouts.
So, I arrived and pulled up to see if hubby was in or around Entrance before parking up and suddenly she who must be obeyed started yelling frantically "Off route, recalculating recalculating recalculating recalculating" - this went on for a minute or so until so embarrassed by the heads turning in my direction (nice day, car window open) I had to terminate her screeches by pulling the plug. I'm sure that all the nice people queueing up outside thought it was me having a hissy fit.
She has never done it since so my hubby isn't convinced it wasn't me
I wonder if it was being so close to the airport controls etc (it is a small airport) that sent her off her rocker. Anyone had that happen to their Friend in the box?
Must get a name for mine
Maura
______________________________________________________________ "Just when I get my head together - my body is falling apart"
I have a tomtom 1 which we have decided is schizophrenic on long trips I connect it to my phone for the traffic function, if there are any hold ups or problems en route it will replot the course to go around it. We went up to the Lincs Aviation meet last weekend and Glenn argued with it nearly all the way. He even got his maps out and told it where we should go according to his planning. He will often tell me to ignore directions and go different ways throwing poor Tom into panic.
Glenn has got TomTom classic and has got the voice of John Cleese on his and they get along very well right at the end of the journey instead of the polite "You have reached your destination" which I get, he gets, "Well you are here, get out of the car, but don't expect me to carry your bags"
Last year in France "naggiaggi" our sat nav told us to turn left at T Junction go 500 Mtrs and make a U turn. told her to s-d off and turned right
she did'nt mind a bit.
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Puss, you just love a strict woman, you need a Cynthia (as in Payne) to order you about, sounds like a German model would be perfect. You Vill Turn Right 
right at the end of the journey instead of the polite "You have reached your destination" which I get, he gets, "Well you are here, get out of the car, but don't expect me to carry your bags" 
