Just took me to South Woolwich instead of Harrow (no, I don't know why either)... What should have taken 45 minutes took me 3 hours and I only arrived in time for dessert!
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Before the days of the sat Nov and just after I passed my yest I was driving to my nan's in Essex. Went the wrong way on the m25 and didn't realise. Took me about 6 fucking hours to get there!! Knew I'd gone wrong when I was going over a bridge I'd never seen before. |
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"Just took me to South Woolwich instead of Harrow (no, I don't know why either)... What should have taken 45 minutes took me 3 hours and I only arrived in time for dessert!
What travel disasters have befallen you...?"
I made it out of Ireland at 19.
Ever since then I've done okay. |
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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago
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"Just took me to South Woolwich instead of Harrow (no, I don't know why either)... What should have taken 45 minutes took me 3 hours and I only arrived in time for dessert!
What travel disasters have befallen you...?"
How is that even possible? One is SE London and the other is NW. 
If I go wrong the first time then that journey is imprinted and I end up going wrong every time I go to whatever place it is. It used to add about 20 miles to my journey from London to Pocklington.
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I got lost on the way to a meet last year.
At the time I was using the sat nav on my phone (which of course raped the battery) and ran out of charge.
I got cut off trying to explain to the fella I was meeting that I was lost and late!
I also didn't have an in-car USB charger, so ended up stopping at a pub, asking to plug my phone in behind the bar and then phoning the lucky man I was meeting who then had to leave the hotel and come and find me at the pub!
I then followed him back to the hotel and charged my phone up while we had our meet! |
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Don't use the sat nav much as can read a map but what gets me is the amount of people who seem to think they are some sort of electronic god that must be followed implicitly.
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I once was told to follow the signs to the airport when going on holiday and my passenger fell asleep. So I literally pulled into the airport and woke up and said after looking around wtf we doing here we are supposed to be at Gatwick not Heathrow. |
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"I once was told to follow the signs to the airport when going on holiday and my passenger fell asleep. So I literally pulled into the airport and woke up and said after looking around wtf we doing here we are supposed to be at Gatwick not Heathrow. "
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By *mmmMaybeCouple
over a year ago
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As a 12yr old dad said "Right, there's the map book I'm just going to follow your directions"
We were travelling from S.London to Cornwall & he hated motorways & was in no hurry..
Good job really as we ended up 5 miles outside Chichester!!
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"Just took me to South Woolwich instead of Harrow (no, I don't know why either)... What should have taken 45 minutes took me 3 hours and I only arrived in time for dessert!
What travel disasters have befallen you...?
How is that even possible? One is SE London and the other is NW.
If I go wrong the first time then that journey is imprinted and I end up going wrong every time I go to whatever place it is. It used to add about 20 miles to my journey from London to Pocklington.
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I know, I know. In my defence I'd never been to either location before and, having double checked the postcode twice, I was sure satnav would be right so did as I was told, just assumed it was being a little adventurous, as it's done before!! |
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