My husband recently replaced the GPS in his car, apparently the power cord snapped off the old one.  And apparently power is important.

Last weekend we were returning from a lacrosse tournament and used the voice activation option to find a restaurant.   And the fun began.

Now he’s originally from Chicago and I guess he’s got a bit of an accent but somehow “Find a restaurant” became “Do you want to go to the library?”  Okay, there are three syllables in both “restaurant” and “library” but that’s the only connection I could find.  While we gave up on Gidget’s assistance (we have named our GPS Gidget) fret not, we found sustenance using good old-fashioned road signs.

But as the hours wore on, when the kids would get a little feisty in the back seat, we’d turn to Gidget for more good clean fun.

Gidget’s best suggestions of the day were when we asked her to drive to our town’s Pizza place (we actually didn’t need her help to find it).  “Did you say the nearest 76?”  Really, is that gas station even still around?  Her second attempt to find the pizza parlor was to suggest directions to the Home Depot.

We were in a classic Saturday Night Live skit and loving every minute of it.  Of course, if we’d really needed her help it would have been a completely different story.