Stupid Guest Tricks

mechurchlady wrote:They take an airport shuttle. Remember men do not need maps. They know whree everything is and how to get there. Women should never tell the man that they have passed the same store 21 times as in "Oh look Marge's Beauty Supplies, is this the 20th or 21 time we passed that shop?"

Not all of us men are like that. I'm not afraid to use maps or to ask for directions if I have to. I usually try to plan my route using Google Maps or a regular map so I'll know mostly how to get somewhere, especially if I've never been there before.

I also have a GPS navigator in my cell phone I use and I want to get a dedicated GPS device sometime. Hard to get lost when you have a device telling you exactly where to turn and all and can compensate for wrong turns.

That is, if the maps are up to date in it. I did get lost trying to return the moving van and car hauler when I first moved down here. The system hadn't been updated with a road that had been expanded and widened and the road signs were lacking and I would up missing my turn off. According to the navigator I was not on a road but in actuality I was in the middle of a six lane highway with businesses of all types on both sides. I just kept going and eventually would up on a road the system knew and was able to make it to the return place, albeit by a round about way.

Since then the maps for the area have been updated but the road signs are still lacking.

LittleDollClaudia wrote:I have had a lot of out of towners tell me their GPS goes haywire when they come to CA.

Maybe the smog gets into the system. LOL!

Hmmmmm!!

I had to do a cross country drive (San Diego to Boston, and back)

and I used my old PDA GPS system and the new one tht I got for DW!

They both worked perfectly. The dedicated GPS was better, in that I could operate it without power for a long time, whereas the PDA version would need continous charging (it IS an old PDA)

The nice thing is that I can update the maps and roadways via laptop, then download to the GPS.

And I have use BOTH many time in the L.A. area, so that story they are giving you sounds like B.S. to me! (they probably didn't want to admit too you that they can't figure it out!! hehehehehe) (besides, MOST GPS systems have "attractions" or "Parks" in their menu, and Disneyland is in them...AND under the hotels section ALL of the DLR hotels are listen in the ones I have!!)

It works for you because GPS stands for "Grumpy Pirate System" :p:
j/k, intelligence probably helps,too!

GRUMPY PIRATE wrote:Thats why, many years ago, I started carrying a GPS module for my PDA when I went to different cities.

Now I have a dedicated GPS!

(and YES DLR and WDW are bookmarked!!)

I'm still old school. I carry a sextant and a Bowditch.

Sorry about the idiot you dealt with, Claudia.

I have to admit that I'm a guy that rarely asks for help. I do have a really good sense of direction -- but I put it to use by taking a map and plotting out where I'm going in advance. What a concept, huh?

P.S. Hobie: I've always wanted to learn to use a sextant. :)

DisneyMom wrote:It works for you because GPS stands for "Grumpy Pirate System" :p:
j/k, intelligence probably helps,too!

Funny, we call our GPS "Genevive Pennelope. " Our last name starts with "S", so we named her this and she has become part of our family, especially since we have recently moved to Northern Calif. and get lost easily, we use it all the time.
Never realized how unique SoCal is when it comes to freeways. Up here (NorCal) there is usually ONE freeway going to where we are going. In SoCal there is usually two, maybe three alternate ways to get to one place. Now, I grew up in SoCal, so the multiple freeways don't confuse me, but when my husband came out here to live from Indiana, he got lost all the time. Also, in SoCal, the mountains are north, great compass!!! In NorCal, I have NO IDEA which way is north. The very least the could do is give me a northern point!!!!

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Terrytunes wrote:Also, in SoCal, the mountains are north, great compass!!! In NorCal, I have NO IDEA which way is north. The very least the could do is give me a northern point!!!!

That's why I love where I grew up. We don't have anything to base where North is, we just know...

I have also heard guests complain that they can not find Wentzel's pretzels inside the parks down here in CA. Sorry, Disneyland has frozen pretzels and they heat them up inside a large oven warmer. If You want Wentzel's pretzels, you can you to Down Town Disney and get it there. Yesterday I told a SG guest that if you go outside of Disneyland and make a right, you will run into it. Let me tell you I saw the deer in the head lights. She was out of it with that blank expression.

Terrytunes wrote:Also, in SoCal, the mountains are north, great compass!!! In NorCal, I have NO IDEA which way is north. The very least the could do is give me a northern point!!!!

Where I live, it's "See that big cloud of smog over the factory? That's north." We don't just see north here, we smell it too!!

West here is easy to figure out. See that island? That's west!