Wow! What a fantastic story! Just another example of what technology has done
to us!
Alex Thomson
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From: Triumphs [mailto:triumphs-bounces@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of John
Macartney
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 4:49 PM
To: triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: [TR] Speedo conversion and GPS signal loss
In 2009, I was somewhere in Iowa. Large town, might have been Des Moines but my
TomTom gps thing lost all satellite signals - probably because of very high
buildings in the immediate vicinity?
Anyway, when the signal returned, I was given the instruction to take the very
next right turn, which I did. The turn itself was through a gap in a wall and
then on to a very neat and narrow blacktopped road, surrounded by immaculate
lawns and two cars in front of me who were both halted. The cars then went
elsewhere, one by one, and the blue Stag and I were brought to a halt by a sign
saying STOP HERE alongside a box on post.
Then the box spoke to me.
I couldnâ??t understand what the woman on the other end was saying, and she
couldnâ??t understand me, so everything started off swimmingly. The voice in
the box insisted on knowing who I had come to see and simply couldnâ??t get her
head round the fact I knew no one at this location and I was only there because
of a GPS malfunction. The whole process was like pulling teeth and the woman
continually asking who I had come to see. Perhaps both tempers were getting
frayed until I asked her why she kept asking who it was I had come to see?
Long silence.
â??As youâ??re here sir, you must know what happens here?â??
â??I donâ??t. Enlighten meâ??.
Another long silence.
When she replied, she seemed utterly amazed I had never heard of the Seven
Steps to Heaven drive thru funeral home (or whatever it called itself) â??now
who do you want to see?â??
It seemed the only way out required me to pass someone, so I paused very
briefly alongside a Mrs Jones - but Iâ??m sure that the concept of drive thru
funeral homes were later copied by others such as McDonalds and Starbucks and
thatâ??s why I refuse to patronise either, unless I walk into them - providing
Iâ??ve found a parking place.
Jonmac
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