Friday June 12, 2009

Adventures with GPS: Today I had to go to get my prescription sunglasses fixed. So, I loaded the information into my handy dandy cell phone GPS. Everything was great until my room mate decided he needed to get his haircut immediately. Normally this wouldn't have been a problem, but in order for him to get to his appointment on time, he first had to pick up his car from the shop. That is where the glitch came in. I had already set the directions, so the lovely lady on GPS started giving me directions. 3 "recalculating directions" later my phone got a message that said, "Do you still need directions?" Obviously this was caused because I hadn't obeyed any of her turn directions driving my room mate to pick up his car. At one point the lovely lady was completely confused by my directions and lack of following hers, that she kept telling me bad traffic ahead.

Well, I dropped my room mate off and was headed back in the correct direction. By now the lovely GPS lady had calmed down, knew I was going in the correct direction, and I was well on my way. That is until I missed the exit I was supposed to take. Loudly and quite clearly perturbed, "Make the first safe and legal U-Turn." Very unceremoniously at that. Instead of being able to make a u-turn, I turned left and was able to drive into a grocery store parking lot where I could make a safe u-turn. By now GPS had completely given up. When I got back going in the direction I should have been, I get the nice lady telling me the exit is on the left. I was half expecting her to say, "Idiot, your other left."

Finally I got to where I needed to be with only one small glitch. GPS does not work well on roads that surround a shopping mall. I turned into the Oak Brook Center Road and was immediately told to make a u-turn and my destination was on the right. Great, I made a u-turn (inviting many horns and subtle gestures from fellow drivers) only to discover I was now facing the road I just came in on. No destination. So I made a right. At this point GPS kept saying I was at my destination. I completely circled the mall thinking it was one of the stores facing out from the mall. No such luck, it was on an interior walkway. I love GPS.

On the dating front: Today I had lunch with a wonderful man. I had met him once before for dinner, so today it was a lunch date. We met at the same place and even sat at the same table. How's that for romantic! I am completely in awe of this man. Great looks, rocking body, thoughtful soul, well spoken, and very educated. We commenced to have a very in depth and often passionate debate about the Catholic Church's stance on homosexuality and the bible. I was challenged and exhilarated. He, on the other hand, had the look of a deer in my headlights. I think the in-depth nature of our conversation was a little, just a tad, more than he expected. Funny how these things happen. Trust me, the topic of conversation was not exactly on my agenda when I agreed to meet him. I think it evolved as a tangent from something else we were talking about.

Note to self: Deer in headlights look means change the topic of conversation. Quickly.

That's it for today. God, I hope he calls me back.