Henry’s GPS system

The scariest part of our last road trip, without question, was Henry’s GPS navigational system. It’s a great tool; I’ve actually wanted to get one from Jieun for some time. The thing is, I dunno if this is a general phenomenon or what, but Henry overuses it. We always set it so we never really learned the routes ourselves, and we become a slave to it. Always using the darn GPS thing.

The scary part was, well for one, Henry spent a significant part of the trip driving while looking at the GPS display rather than the road for long periods of time. After which he’d glance up and jerk back into the middle of the lane. Frightening. Even worse, the system tells you which way to go, but it doesn’t always tell you which lane to be in. So we’d be driving along, then all of a sudden we realize we need to be two lanes over, so at the last second Henry swerves like a madman to get there. Scary, scary stuff.

And Henry didn’t even realize it, because he was still staring at the display, where all was peaceful (“Recalculating route” is as disturbing as it gets), instead of the road, where there was chaos and despair. So yeah, I associate his GPS thing with fear and trembling.