Sue's screen died today. Sue is Elie's GPS navigation unit with the pleasant computerized female voice that says "in point-three miles, turn left," etc. She's an indispensable piece of business equipment. Without the touch screen, there's no way to input the destinations for Sue to navigate to. Fortunately, we bought the extended warranty, so we went to the place of purchase, which I will refer to only as "ABC Warehouse" to protect the identities of the salesyahoos, to obtain a replacement.
Too bad our local ABC Warehouse was out of GPS navigators; however, there was good news. They could order one from another store and have it delivered around Friday or so, or we could go to the store two towns over to pick up ourselves. As I mentioned, the GPS is an indispensable business tool, so we opted for the latter.
This, of course, led to the big problem. The next nearest ABC Warehouse is somewhere in the next county. Our salesyahoos kept throwing out random street names and buildings that, apparently, are somewhere near our replacement GPS, and we kept coming back with variations on, "If we knew where that was, we wouldn't need a GPS navigator now, would we?"
So we followed the directions given to us by the salesguy who assured us "I don't need MapQuest. I drive there all the time." We circumnavigated the entire city of Toledo and a good chunk of the suburbs, and still haven't found that second ABC Warehouse. This is why we have the GPS.
2 comments:
IT'S "SIOUX!" "SIOUX!" NOT "SUE!" "SIOUX!" "SUE" is a girl I knew in high school with very interesting taste in footwear. "SIOUX" is an Indian Guide. Get it: "SIOUX," Indian Guide; GPS-takes you where you want to go. "SIOUX!" "SIOUX!" "SIOUX!" It's a play on words. Don't you get it? Gee whiz!
Signed, "One Guess And It Doesn't Count"
Janet, did YOU err on spelling? This is without a doubt the first sign of the impending apocalypse, hee hee!
(Hmmm, I'd better double check the spelling of apocalypse just to be on the safe side!)
-Larry S. aka mrgrooism
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