Thursday, July 26, 2012

When I get a phone, it'll be an iPhone. So there!

My older sister's Droid is out to kill me.
It sounds improbably, but it is completely (and horribly) true.
Here is my case against it:
Last year, I was staying with this sister (who we'll call 'Saturday', to protect her identity). We decided that we wanted to visit an amusement park, so she entered the request into her Droid, and we hopped into the car and took off.
It was a half-hour drive, and finally we arrived somewhere in the center of the downtown area. The Droid told us we had arrived, but when we looked around... No sign of an amusement park.
Well, we drove in circles for a little while, until we realized that the phone had brought us, not to an actual amusement park, but an ordinary sort of walking-around park in the downtown area. Nothing daunted, we found a parking spot and wandered off to explore.
While we were walking around, two separate creepy hobo (or hobo-like) guys wandered up and started talking to me, but they were easily dodged. We took pictures at several landmarks (including a monument to Truett Cathy <3), and then Saturday decided that we should explore the nearby campus. The streets around it were dark and kind of icky, and I (being much younger and more foolish one year ago) started to freak out. Finally, we went back to the car.
Saturday told the Droid to take us home. We started off, and made a turn...
And nearly smashed into another car, head-on (apply directly to the forehead!).
The Droid had tried to take us down a one-way street. The wrong way.

Not convinced yet?
Well, just a few months ago, Saturday, Tuesday (another sister) and I were riding on down the interstate. Saturday was pretty sure she knew the way, but she had her phone telling us what to do, just in case.
Suddenly, we hear the grating voice.
"Make - a U-turn."
All of us got a good laugh from that. Obviously, we weren't foolish enough to follow its advice.
Then, we hear it again.
"Make - a U-turn."
This was starting to get a little unnerving. A one-way road could have been a fluke, but how could it have been confused about whether or not one may simply make a U-turn on the interstate?
"Make - a U-turn."
 No doubt about it. It was trying to kill us.
I've been told that it only does that when I'm in the car, which leads me to suspect that, for some reason, Google (or simply that particular Droid) wants me dead.

That's why I'm going to get an iPhone. I couldn't care less about peer pressure... But I'm not about to let myself get assassinated by a hunk of circuitry and plastic!

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