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Old 10-09-2010, 05:14 PM   #12362
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My youngest sister loves Mapquest.
Whenever she takes a trip, she uses it.
My brother in law, who does the driving, ignores her.
They make good time that way.
I can imagine.

Mapquest once led us to a Subway restaurant that didn't exist, which wouldn't have been bad except we were in Lawrence KS (where none of us had ever been before) to meet with Shel's ex and get her son for the summer. We found the nearest existing address and the friendly convenience-store attendant said we were in the right place but there was no Subway at that location nor was there at any point in recent memory.

Bonus: Google gave us the same directions.

My theory is that there's an NSA spook warehouse/DoD research facility operating nearby (or maybe at the university) because we did in fact start getting the opposite-direction turn instructions GPS is known to generate when in proximity of such facilities, when we started for home. I know it was home to at least one missile silo at one point. Anyway, dead reckoning on my part (no really, ask Shel) got us back onto I-35.
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