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graciegirl 09-16-2010 12:57 PM
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Originally Posted by Xavier (Post 292622)
She's always been "Gertie" (and I love her dearly), but when she nags she has been called a witch or worse. My wife had to get over the jealousy thing when we first got her in 2003. Gertie would say "right" and my wife would say "left." Talk about being between a rock and a hard place!

I also dream of seeing if I could program in various other phrases like, "NOT here, dumb a**!", Hey Lard A** you missed the turn" and "Okay, find your own way home." Don't tell me there's not a market for this type of dialogue. You can send me a royalty if you decide to do it.

Xavier
I thought of it first.:sad:

chuckinca 09-16-2010 01:04 PM
Ours has sort of a disgusted "re-calculating" comment when we don't follow her directions.


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vj1213 09-16-2010 01:19 PM
I named ours after my husband's ex wife....she gets really annoying at times especially if I know I am going right and she continually tells me to turn or to make a legal u-turn (I thought I was doing that the other day and I got a ticket and a warning for making an illegal u-turn)

Pturner 09-16-2010 02:13 PM
TH, you didn't tell us what you named yours...

RichieLion 09-16-2010 02:21 PM
My GPS is named Samantha; and I have to tell you, she is one pushy female. If I don't listen to her and she's says "recalculating" I can almost hear the distain in her voice. Then again, that makes her no different than most all the women in my life.

bkcunningham1 09-16-2010 03:22 PM
My stepdaughter had the Homer Simson voice on her TomTom GPS.

He"d say, "Whoa hooo. You have reached your destination. And you can hold your head up high because you are a genius!!"

He'd laugh and do that annoying Homer Simpson excited wwhooo hooo at the end of directions.

"Oh it's easy. Just put your hands on the wheel and yank." "Can I hear a thank you." He even did the "Duh."

She got sick of it after awhile and quit using the Homer voice. It was funny though.

"We might find an ice cream truck. Mmm."

kfierle 09-16-2010 03:27 PM
I call mine Lola because, according to Barry Manilow, she is a show girl. She always shows me where to go--better than telling me where to go! :eek:

Pturner 09-16-2010 03:42 PM
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Originally Posted by RichieLion (Post 292665)
My GPS is named Samantha; and I have to tell you, she is one pushy female. If I don't listen to her and she's says "recalculating" I can almost hear the distain in her voice. Then again, that makes her no different than most all the women in my life.
Yeah, but look at it this way. At least she is willing to recalculate!

I rode in a friend's car once when her Tom Tom kept saying, "make a u-turn". "In 500 feet, make a u-turn." "Make a u-turn now." Angrier and angrier grew Tom Tom. When we arrived at our destination, Tom Tom was still furiously telling us to "make a u-turn NOW"!

2newyorkers 09-16-2010 03:44 PM
We call ours Miss Smarty Pants.

logdog 09-16-2010 03:48 PM
Our TomTom has a female British voice. We call her the British B**tch or just B**tch for short. It's not kind but she is so rude... always interrupting our conversations. And now she learned how to beep at me every time I speed a little on the interstate.

Tweety Bird 09-16-2010 07:52 PM
This is unbelievable..but my husband gets jealous of "Tom Tom". He always thinks he is MORE right then Tom Tom and we start arguing in the car as to WHO I should listen to. It's like two men having a competition with one another. I have had to keep the peace by shutting Tom Tom's voice off so that hubby does not get annoyed. I can only give secret glancing looks at the screen because of the competition. Why are men like this?

Pturner 09-16-2010 07:55 PM
It's surprising when you think about it that men even use GPS's. I thought they couldn't ask for directions.
:mornincoffee:

bkcunningham1 09-16-2010 08:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Tweety Bird (Post 292791)
This is unbelievable..but my husband gets jealous of "Tom Tom". He always thinks he is MORE right then Tom Tom and we start arguing in the car as to WHO I should listen to. It's like two men having a competition with one another. I have had to keep the peace by shutting Tom Tom's voice off so that hubby does not get annoyed. I can only give secret glancing looks at the screen because of the competition. Why are men like this?
OMG, I have tears streaming down my face laughing at this. That is the funniest thing I've read on here in a long time.

BogeyBoy 09-16-2010 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Pturner (Post 292792)
It's surprising when you think about it that men even use GPS's. I thought they couldn't ask for directions.
:mornincoffee:
It's not asking for directions - it's another TOY!!!

bkcunningham1 09-16-2010 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by Pturner (Post 292792)
It's surprising when you think about it that men even use GPS's. I thought they couldn't ask for directions.
:mornincoffee:
P, I swear I set the GPS for our destination and I either have to turn it off completely, mute it or change the route before we get to our location because my husband knows a better way than Jeeves. Then I have to reset it to help us find our way out of his shortcuts.


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