Wife jealous of GPS

"That was dumb!"?

With or without GPS, I get plenty of instruction and critique, LOL!

If you're using a female voice, maybe it's a subconscious thing (jealous of the other woman) try changing to a male voice and see what happens.

Forgot to mention - she is the bread winner. I am the stay at home husband.

My wife is very intelligent. She has two master's degrees, attended an Ivy league school and was top in her class, and currently is starting work on a Ph.D. Also, she was smart enough to marry me.

She sees no need for navigational tools outside of paper maps, google maps and mapquest.

She hasn't heard the voice yet. She has heard the voice on her friends' GPSrs. Apparently, one of her friends felt like the "voice" was upset with her having to "recalculate" and not following directions.

Thats probably what gets you in the trouble in the first place, thats a pretty major point to forget.
I take it all back, thank your lucky stars and put the GPSr in the glove compartment.

Let her watch the map and you use the garmin, she dosent have to know and it will make life much easier. You know how it is when the cook is mad.

You're right about thanking my lucky stars. I am married to a wonderful woman. She just hates the gadgets that I tend to purchase. Including an Atari 1200XL in ~1983. That purchase eventually became a godsend. When she was in Columbia U., we were the only household that had a computer in her group. They sat around the Atari and used commands at the end of each file to string the document together.

I hope to change the situation of being a house husband with a job interview on Thursday.

I had a Street Pilot c330 once. We used it on a trip from LAX to San Diego.
I programmed a lot of stops in advance. We had a successful trip there and back home. I removed the GPS from the mount to put in the glove box for the evening when my wife removed it and said this one is mine. Buy your own. Now I have a SP 550.
The family went to Pennsylvania for an early summer vacation. My wife programmed all there side trips in advanced. She loves it. She won’t use a man’s voice, it’s like he not going to tell me where to go.

Joe

Everytime my GPSr made mistake, my wife want to grab it and throw out of the car. How about that?

If she does that with the GPSr, suggest you'll do the same with her...

exclusive...FWIW, my wife has an MBA and a PhD and will not go anywhere without her GPS (formerly C330 and now Nuvi 750) see, it's a matter of time, confidence and convenience for her...all she has to do is plug in an address (99.999% of the time) and drive; no maps, no muss no fuss...if she is in a new area and needs gas she gets gas, etc. She feels that no matter where she is she can always get home (without putting down a window or getting out of her car) and that makes her feel secure...to each her own, of course, but with all due respect your wife seems like she is being just a wee bit stubborn for no discernible reason.

JM2C of course, Ted

My wife is very directionally challenged. If she can't see the mountians to the West of Denver, she gets very confused. I was Little Rock, AR once, and she decided to drive out and vist. She stopped in NM to visit friends and then got on I40. The only problem was she was going West instead of East. She drove for 3 1/2 hours before realizing she was going the wrong direction. We bought a new car a couple of years ago for her, and I had them put in the navigation system. It has been very handy for her, but she had a hard time trying to figure out how to use it. Now that she has, she loves it.

I was given a 660 for Christmas, and I just love it. Won't travel without it.

Alan

There are people out there that are afraid that
"Gadgets are smarter than they are"

people can be very intelligent, they can have many different sheep skins hanging on the wall, Ph.D., Masters, Bachelors, Associates,(etc) degrees.

They can go to the best Schools around the world and be top in their class, but unless the attend the school of common sense, they can be very intelligent and lack at the basic skills needed to realize that a gadget such as a gpsr is actually smarter than you, only because the CPU is programmed to process and page through maps & POI's much faster than any human could ever think about doing on a paper map. But it takes common sense to know that, then to speak it to you to boot.

So you can be very intelligent and and extremely educated, however without common sense your not very smart.

Bob

People were gathered at the cementary for the funeral of a man's wife. The preacher just finished with his final words when the sky got dark, thunder clattered and lightning flashed across the sky.

The man looked up at the preacher and said, "Yep, looks like she got there"!

She may throw you out of the car with that suggestion.

She is "stubborn". However, she also believes that mapquest and yahoo maps are enough to get us where we need to go. Today, my daughter was auditioning at an address that was on a street that I was familiar with. Still, my wife provided a mapquest map, which failed to show the exact address. The GPS was able to get me very close. I located the correct building without a visible address to the street. I told my wife about the GPS getting us to the correct address. She was "okay" with the achievement.

My wife uses alot of technology (hardware and software) at her workplace and is a goto person for support even though tech support is not part of her department. So it is not a "fear" of technology.

I'm sorry but gadgets don't think. Nor is it artificial intelligence. Basically, gadgets that you are describing follow algorithms.

My wife was annoyed until she got her own Nuvi with Dan instead of Jill. However, amazing the number of people that seem to take this thread seriously... I mean... jealous of a GPS? LOL. Whatever... happy Thursday!

I had something similar happen until she had to find directions and used Map Quest. That kead her down a road that didn't exsist any longer and she was late for a work meeting. THe next time she had to do it she asked to use the GPS and actually got to her destination quicker the the time before. NOw all she uses is the GPS.

Go figure!

That's not what I said........
Whatever Dude, good luck with your life as a matched pair because nothing seems to be getting into your closed mind either.

Good luck with your job search, I truly hope you find a job today.

Bob

We take our laughs very seriously.

yep...my girfriend bought me a garmin c580 for our 1 year anniversary and I use it to go everywhere...I like the traffic reports. She tells me I spend more time listening to that thing than I do her. AHAHAHHAHAAAH oh the joy

Thanks.... I hope that I do find a job today. Probably won't know for at least a week, though.

Sorry if I changed what I thought you were expressing.

Common sense is not that common.

Haven't reached that point where my wife is jealous of the GPSr but the one thing that she hates about the unit is when it gives us the redlight camera warnings. Last week while travelling in downtown Seattle, Wa the alerts were going off every ten to fifteen seconds and was driving me crazy. I swear my wife was about to throw the GPSr out the window

Have you tried inserting a 5-10 seconds of silence to the end of those alerts? Could help reduce the number of alerts that gets looped.

My GF wasnt so much as jealous but after borrowing it a few times really enjoyed having one.

She's off in Arizona at the moment visiting family but I couldnt break with my Nuvi 350.
Soooo.. while we were out one day I bought her a Nuvi 360.
Now then.. This makes for a slight dilemma. She suddenly has a gooder one than I! So..I also bought myself a 660 that day. Heheheh
She's set up with the latest maps and redlight/speed cams now as well.

Actually what 'sealed it' and made me decide she needed one for her own was when she came out to one of my car shows a few weeks before.
She left a few minutes before me, but got lost and arrived back at her house 40 mins after me. As I was waiting, I was thinking how my nuvi faithfully got me out of the area and how she was trying to figure out how to get home. Hehehe

Cliff notes?
Just buy her one for herself!
(Aside from the obvious benefit of your GF not getting lost, there is of course the bonus her 'appreciation' )

Sorry I wasn't too clear as to what was happening. I was driving through a part of downtown near Qwest Field where it seemed like every intersection or every other intersection had redlight cameras installed so the alerts seemed to be going off almost continuously. A close analogy would be if one were to set alerts for Starbucks and was driving around in Seattle...result constant bonging from the alerts.

I think it's time to buy her a GPS.