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Driving from Oxford to Swanage via Poole, looking at the satnav, I noticed that we were passing near to the village of Middle Wallop, and commented on it to my
by denton-scratch 3y ago
Driving from Oxford to Swanage via Poole, looking at the satnav, I noticed that we were passing near to the village of Middle Wallop, and commented on it to my driver (bec ause it's a cool name).
We started getting directed down stranger, narrower roads, until we came to a muddy farm track in a tiny village, at which point the satnav announced "You have arrived". We were only halfway to Poole.
I must have momentarily touched the satnav screen, and inadvertently reset the destination to Middle Wallop.
On the same trip, on arriving at Poole, we should have taken the ringroad; but the driver ignored my navigation directions, and we ended up on a highway into Poole centre. I told the driver to just do a U-turn, and return to the ringroad; then the satnav announced "Board the ferry". We looked at one another, simultaneously saying "What ferry?" Then we looked up, and there was a car-ferry, loading up. So off we sailed to Swanage. Better than taking the ringroad.