What nickname do you have for your GPS?

[dakotamouse]

We just got back from a three day trip to Icelandic State Park in North Dakota. We had never been up that way before so we really relied on our GPS unit for the first time.

She worked really great but you do have to use some common sense with them. There were a few roads that were under construction or had been permanently rerouted. Sometimes because of that the GPS would be wrong. She would patiently recalculate and send us on our was.

If we would have blindly trusted her we would have been run into the expanding Devils Lake. This would be a mistake......or would it? Was the GPS innnocently making an error? Or was she like that evil car in the Stephen King book.................Christine?

After a while we started refering to her as Christine of Chrissy.

Just for the fun of it. Anyone else have a pet name for their GPS?

[sid]

Gypsy ...... she takes us .... wherever!

[Gaelen]

LOL--my friends started calling mine "Mrs. Tomtom" when we took her on a dog show trip, and it just kinda stuck.

Love the help, the information, all of it--but what I've noticed is that sometimes you do get so wrapped up in waiting for the vocal instructions that you check your common sense at the door. On the way home, on a route I've taken more times than I can remember, I completely missed my turn off because Mrs. Tomtom lost her satellite, and I wasn't paying attention to signs, but listening to see if she'd find the turn-off I'd programmed in. I knew how to get home, but I did end up driving about 15 miles out of my way to do it.

so when using the GPS, just remember that it's only ONE input into your driving brain.

[dakotamouse]

Gypsy and Mrs. Tomtom!!! Love it!!! We are looking forward to our trip to Pamplin Grove and we are hoping that Christine is too cause we just might need a little help from her!

[Catoosa Grani]

Our GPS has an English accent. We call her Daphne. She gets rather perturbed if we don't go the way she says. She will finally recalculate but raises her voice a little before she finally does. She tells us to go ?? miles and make a u turn to get back on the "motorway". She is built into our MINI.

Grani

[dakotamouse]

An English accent would be fun! Ours doesn't change expression at all but I would die laughing if just once after "Recalculating" one too many times she'd say..."WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE"!!!!!

[signs]

We call mine FLO from Mel's diner.

She is real bossy and will not shut up.


Jay

[asianflava]

We have been looking at houses with our realtor. She calls her's Delores.

We have names for all the houses because they all kinda blur together. If it has a big yard we call it the "yard house" if there were dogs we call it the "dog house". We stopped at one while the owner was there. The owner had a British accent so we called that one "Delores's house".

I don't have a name for mine.

[swissarmygirl]

I don't have a GPS.
I use my handy dandy atlas. It cost $5, and it hasn't steered me wrong yet.

[Bristol Delica]

Our Tom Tom is called Tilley, inspired by Hilly, the female computer that replaced Holley in Red Dwarf.

Fortunately Tilley is not quite as demented as Hilly was

IanJ

[Joseph]

I don't have a GPS.
I use my handy dandy atlas. It cost $5, and it hasn't steered me wrong yet.

I'm with you, though I did finally go high tech old-guy style and mounted a compass on my dashboard...

Joseph

[PaulC]

I have a GPS, as for calling it names..........That happens too

Cheers
Paul

[BILLYL]

The one we use for the car - is called Jason - since I have had the unit I've learned to "HACK IT" and have put some other voice files on the machine.

My wife is into GEOCACHING and uses a Garmin - and calls the thing all kinds of names since it is constantly losing satellites in the woods.

So far Jason has only tried to make us do two illegal road turns - but beside it it has found some ways to places we would have never known.


Bill

[billnut]

Wife

[dakotamouse]

A HA!!! So I'm not the only one! Those are some good names. And maybe some not so GOOD names too!

We also keep an atlas with us and we like to pick up official state maps. That way we can plot ahead and find state campgrounds.