Thoughts.com Blogs - All I want for Mothers Day is a GPS

I've been singing this in my head to the tune of "All I want for christmas is my two front teeth!" since the start of the week. Oh I know I am not going to get a GPS or a SATNAV but..... and honestly it's not high on my "needs to have" list..... but I'd really love one.

But gone are the days of "really" wanting something and just getting it.
That is something that FOTY & I were bad at - impulse buys.

See the thing is, I am geographically challenged. I'll admit it.
In the past 12 months, this has been proven many times -
but fortunately nowadays it is only the kids
and myself in the car, so I often get away with it.

Except the night of FOTY's mum's wedding, it's 11pm at night, we are in outback Frankston, 40 minutes from home. We have to be up the next morning at 6am to leave for the airport ... and what do i do??
I turn the wrong way out of a street and head in the
completely opposite direction than I need to go.

I'm driving along unfamiliar roads, mind you the correct direction would have been similar in that it was unfamiliar. I don't go to this neck of Melbourne much at all. Suddenly I realise the signs are not saying what I would expect them to say. There is no Melbourne xx kms away, but there are other suburbs listed ..
which means oo Oh I'm going the wrong way.

So I turn around and head back to where I started.
I begin to doubt myself so I pull over and grab the MELWAYS (maps of Victoria).
I look up my location, turn the map the right way ... ie. so that it is upside down but the road I'm on is heading the same direction as the rotated map .. and I head off again.
But here's where a GPS would come in handy..... I miss the turn off back towards the right street.... If I had a satnav or GPS I would have had an annoying (most likely american - no offense) voice telling me to turn left at next street. Ended up getting it right eventually, and got home around midnight!

You see I think my problem is FOTY used to drive everywhere when we went places. Not the problem, the problem was I never used to "watch" where we were going, so I wouldn't remember. Not sure what I did watch when we were driving places. Now I have no choice, no zoning out when I'm driving.
Hmmm probably should just stick to what I know ... the quickest road to the local shopping centre .... ahhhh retail therapy ... mmmm a GPS!!!

So anyway I'll keep singing ...

All I want for Mothers Day is a G-P-S

one day, one day!!