Senseless Sunday Sarcasm : Florida

TINY TERROR TELLS TOURISTS: Read the sign!
If you look like this when it’s over 80F with 80% humidity
Don’t come to Florida in the summer, where 95F with 100% humidity is normal.
If you try to use your GPS in rural areas, you’re a numbskull and you don’t belong anywhere that isn’t the size of Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Orlando, Tampa, or Miami.
GPS might, on occasion, know where the road is, but not what it looks like.
Apparently, I’m not the only one who has witnessed too many GPS fails.
There are usually two streets with the same name in my area of Florida. Apparently, the people naming them didn’t know that avenues are supposed to go one direction and streets the other.
If you ever had to wait for people in an extended cab pick-up truck — hauling a 30 foot travel trailer — trying to back out of this road, you’d understand.

Coon Cat waits for another GPS victim
Here’s the scenario: I’m coming home from work. All I want to do is, remove my #*$&@# bra, and get comfortable, but someone with a trailer costing more than I’ve made in a lifetime marches over to the only car on a dirt road — and asks, “Is this Lakeway Drive?”
When I say no, they look at their GPS and announce, “Why does it say I’m on Lakeway Drive?”
“Before you entered this dirt road, there was a sign at the corner,” I reply. “It says Main Street.”
“But the GPS says….”
“Please remove your vehicle so that I can get to my home — the only one on the entire block — that’s 10 miles away from Lakeway Drive.”
“You’re not very nice.”
As always, I reply, “Get a map.”
Then you see it — that look of fascinated horror…the gasp! And then the dumbest question of all time comes out, “You don’t have air conditioning in your car?”
“Floridian’s don’t need no stinkin’ A/C,” I reply.
No, I don’t have A/C in the Jeep I paid $250 for. I’m from Florida: Get over it.
No, I don’t have A/C in my home: There are these things called “trees.” If you cut them down, you’ll swelter in the summer and freeze in the winter. If you have lots of large windows with a wonderful view of the outside treeline — and window fans — it’s always 20 degrees cooler inside.
You can’t save the environment and use air conditioning, too. It’s like telling people to use a bicycle instead of a car, and then doing this:
No, Florida isn’t for everyone.
I prefer a green Christmas far away from any city the size of Jacksonville, St. Augustine, Orlando, Tampa, or Miami.
The following is a map. It shows where Interstate 10, 95 & 75 are located. Buy this before going anyplace that is NOT on these roads,
and for God’s sake, turn off the GPS so this doesn’t happen to you.
Yep, we have GPS Warriors here in UK as well, Joelle – especially those who never update them 😀
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It’s surprising how many people can’t read a map. If you use GPS to find my place, it will tell you to turn 2 miles before you get there. Same street name, but it’s “Street” instead of “Avenue.” 🙂
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LOL
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There are times……………………….. good post. 🙂
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Thanks. 🙂
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I like to imagine Florida doesn’t need tourism? Since you go out of your way to discourage it? Also, this is why I can never go to Darwin in Australia.
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I encourage tourism in the larger cities and theme parks. Thus the adage: Welcome to Florida, now go home.
I discourage the use of GPS in rural Florida and sightseeing down dirt roads. There are places you can’t get phone service if you’re stuck, and towing insurance won’t pay the towing fee if your car gets stuck in certain areas.
A friend was taking a different (more scenic) route to my home, so she used the GPS. The GPS decided she should take a route that was shorter instead and sent her that direction. Then it wanted her to turn on the road to my home 2 miles before the actual turn.
Fortunately, she already knew how to get to my place. 🙂
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I’d be fine without tourists where I live.
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Yepper!!! I also live here in the same town …. and further off the main road than JoElle. If I want a delivery to my home the 1st thing I tell them is DO NOT under any circumstances use the GPS once you leave the hi-way. Then I give or send them specific instructions. Our families needed them when I 1st moved to where I am living now. HOWEVER, it is really nice that those you don’t want here can’t usually find you. As for tourists …. those of us that choose to live here, and don’t count on tourists for an income, don’t want them here.
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Yep. You certainly are deeper in the woods than I am. 🙂
Sometimes I think GPS means “getting people stranded.”
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People treat GPS as if the first letter stood for God. I like your meaning better: “getting people stranded”. It’s so good at that!
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I can tell that you know how to read a map, too. 🙂
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I ALWAYS had a map in my car. I trust my ability to read.
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We are definitely on the same page here. 🙂
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I LOVED visiting Florida especially the Gulf coast but that was last done in the 70’s. I won’t be back to bother you. Very funny GPS stories, I don’t drive–eyesight– so if the bus driver is lost it is not my problem. If on foot and lost, I just walk towards Mt Rainier as it is big enough for me to see it! Where can you get a road map when you need to buy one anyway?
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AAA still offers maps.
After the big oil spill, the Gulf coast hasn’t been the same. I was there a few months ago and, frankly, I wouldn’t want to go into that water.
The main roads with GPS (like the interstates and state roads, are okay, but when people get into the boonies, it can be a problem.
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Believe it or not, there are regions of Northern California that have a Bermuda Triangle-like effect on GPS. They don’t call it the Lost Coast for nothin’. 🙂
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LOL! It doest it’s job well. It “gets people lost.”
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The many reasons you listed on why I would never visit Florida in the summer. This kid from Oregon would wimp out in the saddest of ways.
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That takes courage to admit.
I would freeze to death in the north. I’ve lived there and never could get used to it, so I moved back to where I was comfortable. 🙂
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Spot on GPS stuff.
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Thanks for adding in your experience. I’m hoping people will think twice before using GPS to find places that are on dirt roads.
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A few months back when I took a trip to a major city, I still grabbed a paper map. It was so much more fun than staring into my phone screen while navigating around town.
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Yes, and it’s harder to get lost that way. 🙂
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GPS was never intended to replace common sense. Not much of that around, anymore.
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Very, very sad but true.
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I haven’t GPS in my little old car, that’s why I cannot use it! But I belong wonderful paper maps 😋😀
Ciao
Sid
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Glad to hear it. 🙂
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😁😎
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