It’s A Small World, After All
Dec 23rd, 2006 at 1:56 pm by Susie
There are so many things that have changed, just in the past few years. Remember when only a few people had cell phones? Remember life before Google maps?
I was just talking to a friend who was shopping in Santa Barbara, California. “I need to find out where I am. I have to get off now,” she said. (She was looking for the wharf so she can buy fresh fish for the traditional seven fishes Christmas Eve dinner.)
“Do you want me to look up the map for you?”
“Sure,” she said.
I opened Google maps. “You’re headed the wrong way. Turn around,” I instructed her. “You’re really close, though. There’s a wharf that sticks all the way out, that’s probably the one you’re looking for.”
She thanked me. I said, “Isn’t this weird, when you think about it? I mean, here I am, all the way across the country, giving you directions…”
“Yeah, it really is,” she said. What a small world we live in, these days.
My son and I do this all the time. I keep thinking I should get a gps but then if you can reach by cell someone who is likely online you don’t need it.
Heh. I am still in “life before Google maps”, because Google Maps delivers me a blank screen, time after time.
I can’t open Google maps in Explorer - only in Firefox, which works like a charm.
You wouldn’t believe what happened to the crabs last night. Jailbreak! Eric’s going to write it up later.
Thanks again, oh Goggling Goddess. Wish you were here for dinner (including the surviving crabs.)