On Apr 17, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Joy Hecht wrote:

> Maps can be hazardous too.  I was once navigating while a friend
> drove our
> rented car through some town in France.  We end up in the old part
> of the
> city, past a plaza with a church and I'm poring over the map and
> telling her
> "we have to turn left, we have to turn left."  She's ignoring me.
>
> Finally she said "joy, LOOK at where you're directing me to turn!"
>
> It was a staircase.
>
>
& what is wrong driving down a staircase in a rented car?

Grin,

Mr. BZ-saw Steve Martin do it

>
>
> Joy
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
> Behalf Of
> Loren Busch
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:11 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: GPS Can Be Hazardous To Your Vehicle
>
> Only skightly off topic considering the number of us that use GPS
> based
> navigation systems in our Vanagons:
> http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/
> 2004354292_webbuscrash17.htm
> l
> Tab through the pictures!!
> When the driver was asked "What happened?" he responded "I was just
> following the onboard GPS system".  I guess that was after
> disconnecting
> brain.  Maybe I'd better shut up now that I think of the time I
> almost drove
> into a low garage with the Bagawest carrier up top.....
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