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Was programing a couple of addresses into the "Girl in the Pink Shorts" to go to the Watertown SD gun show tomorrow, thinking about my brother. He calls his "the B**tch in the black box" I have to be nicer due to Grandchildren being around sometimes. What do you call yours???
 
the one in our van, TomTom, is "piece of crap". The one in my truck, well it doesnt have a name. I should name it, its very accurate!(Factory GPS)
 
(quoted from post at 08:33:05 03/21/14) Was programing a couple of addresses into the "Girl in the Pink Shorts" to go to the Watertown SD gun show tomorrow, thinking about my brother. He calls his "the B**tch in the black box" I have to be nicer due to Grandchildren being around sometimes. What do you call yours???
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Our Tom Tom was named Hilary cause she often gets confused...she fell and hit her head right after we got her LOL!
 
Call it the "Garmin" since that is the brand.

Suffered over a year listening to arrogant, scolding, irritating Female voice before I found I could change to a male voice which is easier for me to listen to.

I pass the word along whenever talking to friends. I tell them now I only have to listen to one know it all, obnoxious female voice when traveling with the wife.

By the way anyone got any decorating ideas for this spare bedroom that I now occupy by myself for some unknown reason ?

Bill
 
My Garmin has a womans voice, and I call her "Amelia" for Amelia Erhart.

Tammys is a Tom Tom, with a mans voice and we call it "Fred"
For Fred Noonan, the alcoholic navigator that was with Amelia when she disappeared.

Gene
 
Apparently you don't trust your GPS's too much, if you name them after people that are lost! I never heard the story about Fred being an alcoholic, maybe that explains it.
 
I don't have one. I'm still old school and read a map.
I can never be lost because everyone is always telling me where to go ! LOL.
 
I was a commerical driver for 38 years and never needed one and its funny that the young drivers out there today that have them and still can't find where they are going. My BIL has one in his car and the several times that I have been with him and he used it it sent us 7 miles out of the way to get to where we were going.
 
I call if a piece of @#$%. Its wrong half the time.

I use Google maps on my phone, not perfect but way more accurate.

Rick
 
I travelled by air all over the U.S. and Canada. When I arrived at the airport, I rented a car, if someone didn't pick me up, then I looked briefly at a map and drove to my destination.

Didn't need GPS then and don't need one now.
 
Flo. After that annoying b*tch in the Progressive commercials.

Only time I've ever really [i:654c4848f0]depended[/i:654c4848f0] was getting out of downtown Salem Mass and back onto I95 once.

The rest of the time, I use it as a distance/time calculator. I can still read a map...
 
Been hauling through town all week and had to go under a very low railway bridge.......Met 7 trucks already that were gonna have to find the 'R' position on their gearstick by the time they reached that bridge......guess the polite lady in the box would have got a bit of a chewing for not mentioning the bridge?
Sam
 
Starfire
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Ms Garmin

Wife says I love messing with Ms Garmin, as in going on roads that don't exist or taking shorter routes but on county roads when Ms Garmin wants to take major hiways.

jt
 
Don't have one and don't need one . If it east of US 83 to the east coast and from the northern boarder to the southern boarder i can get there and probably know most of the goat paths also . Plum drives the War Dept crazy . as she will say ya want me to look up the directions on map quest .NO i know where we are going . Well do you want me to put the address into my phone so we can find it NO . Way tomany years being a COMMERCIAL TOURIST.
 
NOTHING I CAN SAY HERE ! I use it to tell me when I'm close to a destination so I can be on the look out. It usually tells me I arrived 10' past the drive !@#$$@@ Then I get to see all kinds of stuff trying to turn the Semi around.
 

Read that he was a better navigator drunk than most people who were sober. I think him an Amelia popluated some island with little Freds and Amelias!!

Gene
 
I called mine "Ozzy" because I had changed the voice to Ozzy Osborn's voice. It would stutter and cuss as it gave you directions.
 
I don"t use GPS. When I got my Sprint phone they gave me a 30 day free trial, I brought it up one day and it had me moving 400 feet as the wind rocked the truck.
That"s while I was backed into a dock, too.
3 turns and I was on the highway that came out where I needed to go, it had me weaving through town and making about 5 dozen million turns. Got worse when I got to the yard and tried going home with the pick-up. It wanted me to go to the first place in the next ZIP code to go home. I deleted it the day I downloaded it.

The GPS in the boss" "10 Dodge told me to return to a valid address the day I tried to tell it to use the current location as "home".

I don"t have a name for the GPS in the tractor, but I call the JD planter box Sherlock. It"s always beeping to tell me what I already know. When I need to know something the stupid thing quits beeping.
 
Took this at last year's Nowthen Threshing Show (Nowthen, MN). I have been seeing this around for several years at the show, and had been meaning to get a good picture of it. Thought it was funny, with the "Original GPS" feature that it was equipped with.

But to answer the question, I call my GPS my smart phone.
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G P S Great Piece Of S## It has problems with working in the field. For the road I do it old school. Map and call for directions in to the locale.
 
I call my "GPS"....."Being able to read a MAP and follow directions". It's a lost art. Never needed a GPS, and never will.
 
(quoted from post at 08:33:05 03/21/14) Was programing a couple of addresses into the "Girl in the Pink Shorts" to go to the Watertown SD gun show tomorrow, thinking about my brother. He calls his "the B**tch in the black box" I have to be nicer due to Grandchildren being around sometimes. What do you call yours???
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What is a GPS and why would I want one?
 
(quoted from post at 05:28:16 03/22/14)
(quoted from post at 08:33:05 03/21/14) Was programing a couple of addresses into the "Girl in the Pink Shorts" to go to the Watertown SD gun show tomorrow, thinking about my brother. He calls his "the B**tch in the black box" I have to be nicer due to Grandchildren being around sometimes. What do you call yours???
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What is a GPS and why would I want one?
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Actually I use my GPS more for entertainment and maps. It gives me something to do on long trips as it constantly calculates your eta, any traffic congestion, toll booths, etc. It also gives your speed accurately in digital form, and shows the speed limit for most roads that you are on. For my tractor work business I can punch in an address and get the same info, plus I don't have to worry about missing a street as it shows the crossroads as they are approaching....saves a lot of turning around. My eyesight isn't as good as it used to be at night, and that is where the streetmap really comes in handy. Last year I bought a tractor out in the middle of nowhere in CA, 10:00 at night, no way I would have found the guys place without GPS. I try to google a new address first if I can, or look at a map just to make sure it doesn't lead me way off track, but it is usually accurate. Try it, you'll like it!
 
I really can't count how many lost people I've had to redirect back to "civilization" that were depending on their Tom-Tom or Garmin or whatever, or that simply couldn't find my place despite the only 80 foot silo in my town that serves as a landmark. IMO if you have to depend on a voice telling you when to turn, etc, if you can't read a map, if you need help following a state road...maybe it's time to give up your drivers license! :shock:
 
on my smartphone i downloaded an app called waze. it works pretty good for free. i never bought a tom tom or whatever because i noticed that it caused it's owners to cuss quite often.
 
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