I really like my Tom Tom GPS that I got when we bought the new van.  I’m terrible with directions, Mapquest had a serious vendetta against me and I can’t tell you how hard a time I have driving down the highway, with my paper in hand trying to keep one eye on the road and one eye figuring out where I was on the page

.  I was so excited when I got the GPS, my days of wandering lost in the streets of St. Pete were over!  I would confidently get from point A to point B without need to call Pete and ask “hey, are you near a computer?” 

But here’s the problem.  I need Tom Tom to say, “Hey, Anissa, next to that Citgo is a white house with 2 big shrubs in the front, you’re going to turn left right after you see the brown cat run across the road.”  What Tom Tom says is “Turn left in 500 feet.”  I’ll be very honest…I have no perception what 500 feet looks like, let alone what 500 feet looks like at 35 miles an hour, how many of the 500 feet have been used up in the time it took me to look up at the road and try to gauge 500 feet.  And if there’s two streets close together, which one looks more like a 500 foot road?  But I AM learning to understand what Tom Tom is talking about and getting more comfortable with its instructions.

Until today…Tom Tom told me take a right…I was in the middle of a bridge. 

I think Tom Tom is trying to kill me.

--Anissa

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