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Well... > not getting lost while frantically driving down a freeway; or anywhere else, for that matter I had a real "The Machine Stops" moment a few months ag
by chris_st 7y ago
Well...
> not getting lost while frantically driving down a freeway; or anywhere else, for that matter
I had a real "The Machine Stops" moment a few months ago when I was trying to get to a doctor appointment, and I'm running late, so I fire up the map app on my phone, enter the address, and get on the highway... and no internet. And yeah, I hadn't been to this location enough to know how to get there, and it's in a twisty maze of passages, all just enough alike each other to make "hopeful" navigation worthless.
Rebooted the phone, got the internet again, got to the appointment, whew.
And yeah, we have our old bag of maps in the car, but they're old enough that I'm not sure the office is ON those maps...!
- mrfusion 7y agoI was driving to a relatives house out of state when my phone died and I didn’t have a charger. I had their address and phone number only on my phone! I was panicking. Luckily my phone was able to restart after a few minutes and I memorized the directions before it shut down again. I still wonder what I would have done otherwise?