Rosey

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I don't really give a damn that I don't know my way around LA very well. I don't intend on staying here long enough to become an expert. So, like many of you, I bust out Google Maps to light my way when I'm going somewhere I ain't been before. This is usually a so-called "slam dunk," but when Goog starts telling me to "Flip a bitch," or, "make a U-turn" as some of you call it, I call bullshit. I had to take Ez to the vet ... er ... pediatrician ... and while I knew the back way to it, I wanted to know the fastest way.

So into Google Maps goes the starting point and the destination. It spits out the predictable route (the same way with a slight mod for my place to MY doc) but it says to take a right at Manchester, flip a bitch and continue the opposite way down Manchester - all this in the place of taking a LEFT at Manchester, a traffic maneuver I know can be legally made.

It took some fucking with the little blue line on the Google Map, but I found the magic zone that let the Google route take the left turn, so I knew that the Google Map robot was quick to suggest the U-turn.

Forward a few weeks and I'm going to my doc at his Marina office and as I haven't been to it before, I Google Map out a route. Sure enough, the route orders a U-turn at Mindinao. "Crap!" I declare and shrug off the suggestion, deciding to circle around west of the office, turn left and left again and thereby approach from the south. Sounded pretty good and worked up to the point that there was ... uh ... NO LEFT TURN onto Lincoln (my northerly left turn). On through the light I needed to turn at I went, and wound around the hospital complex and found another NO LEFT TURN. Farther and farther on before I could turn North. I had to then go pretty far west and eventually found myself on Google's suggested path ... to the point that I got to it's suggested U-turn ... which was clearly marked as a left-turn lane with U-turn privileges. One tire-squealing U-turn later and I'm right where I should be. At this point I felt not unlike the turd that had been circling the fuckin' drain for a while. Dammit.

Tonight - Homestead.


bye-ee!

whrr ... clik!