Using GPS for driving directions. Did not work for me!!!!.

Heres the story Thank God we have all kinds of GPS devices now. We did not earlier. :). I have been lost so many times searching for places I was supposed to go. Lets talk about GPS for instance, Even that has guided me in the wrong direction few times. Couple of months ago I had been to Goa. Half way to Goa and I am lost because my GPS device had asked me to take a left and I am confused because that left is nothing but a jungle.:). I look at my wife and I ask her do we Trust the GPS and get into the jungle.  She was also not sure but we thought we will give it a try. We enter the forest for may be a kilometer and then the GPS asks me to turn right, But now I see nothing, Its kind of a cliff(downhill whatever the word :) ) and this GPS is asking me to go down the cliff. That’s BULLS**T. So I had to comeback to the main highway just the way I entered as there was no place to do a round about turn(Reverse which i hate). OK!!Now that was with the GPS. Since then I have realized to keep my GPS maps upto date because you don’t know when someone is going to plant a tree on the middle of the road and change it into a jungle. So guys keep your GPS activated all the time.

Asking for driving directions in  Chennai, India

This was a interesting one. Me and three of my friends had been to Pondicherry( India) for  from Bangalore. We had to go to Chennai and then go to Pondicherry as we had to drop of a package for one of our friends staying there. Now once we were done with that we  started asking for driving directions to Pondicherry as we did not have a GPS device then. Its about 2.00 AM in the night and there is nobody on the road. So we hunt for people because we are LOST!!!. We were praying that we see atleast one tonight so that we can ask him "Which way is Pondicherry " and then we find couple of guys in a tea stall late in the night.  For us those two were like gods. We went up to then with all smiles and then we asked the question"Driving directions to Pondicherry please ":). Guess what they don’t speak our language and that’s because my dear country has thousands of languages spoken all over. Then it was the sign language with Pondicherry in the End. And then those two guys got up and they started arguing about something. They were having an argument on which is the shortest route I believe from what we would understand from their hands moving all over the place.  Now if that was not enough 3-4 more people show up and they are all discussion on the driving directions or let me put it this way"OUR FATE". We sat helplessly for a while sipping on tea. After a while one of the guys came to me and showed me the directions. We finally reached our destination but it’s a story to speak

Driving directions experience taught me few things though

I believe no one is ever lost in this world. Let it be looking for a direction on road or in life. We would need few people who would help us in sending us in the right direction. Even a group of people who TRULY care , they would take the pain of discussing , arguing just for us so that we are in the right direction. So life is a journey as well and we need driving directions. We should not be lost and always be on the right path. That’s the lesson learnt from my story.haha. Whats yours ??? Cool things to talk about and cool secrets to know on blogging