Imagine that one guy who calls this hotline everyday for directions to hooters
l0ooo-ooo0l on
Knowing I only remember the first couple of turns someone tells me when I ask for directions I’d be calling these folks back….a lot. 😝 Pen and paper wouldn’t help as I can’t read my own writing either.
…I’d also be even more lost as I’d have to go find a phone booth…nightmare! 🤓
WestEst101 on
That’s a map of the Netherlands. I can only assume the calls were coming from the Netherlands and not New York.
froggertthewise on
I imagine most of these conversations started with at least 15 minutes of someone being unable to communicate their current location.
Reddit-M-Sucks on
I called them asking for “Square Route 66”, been like 20 years, still no answer.
Gl1ntVeiN_ on
— “Hello? I need help. ”
— “Hello. Where are you?”
— “I don’t know, i am somewhere!”
— “What do you see?”
— “I see a store”
— “where do you need to go?”
— “home”
— “where’s home?”
— “i don’t know”
…
ZealousidealBread948 on
This is crazy
imagine calling in the middle of the night and saying
I’M LOST
tycho_uk on
We used to call or mail the AA with a route we needed to do and they would calculate and mail a printed copy of the route for you to use. Then we had things like Autoroute on the PC so we could do this ourselves and print it out. I thought I was the tech king when I had a PocketPc connected to a GPS receiver in the car so I could navigate with TomTom.
1eternal_pessimist on
Would be more helpful with mobile phone technology
Prestigious-Case936 on
Even better some automobile associations could also provide “pilots” who would meet you somewhere in their car and you would follow them in your car to the destination you designated. I used it once when I transferred interstate as a teenager. We are talking late 1980’s. Seriously I am not making this up.
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Imagine that one guy who calls this hotline everyday for directions to hooters
Knowing I only remember the first couple of turns someone tells me when I ask for directions I’d be calling these folks back….a lot. 😝 Pen and paper wouldn’t help as I can’t read my own writing either.
…I’d also be even more lost as I’d have to go find a phone booth…nightmare! 🤓
That’s a map of the Netherlands. I can only assume the calls were coming from the Netherlands and not New York.
I imagine most of these conversations started with at least 15 minutes of someone being unable to communicate their current location.
I called them asking for “Square Route 66”, been like 20 years, still no answer.
— “Hello? I need help. ”
— “Hello. Where are you?”
— “I don’t know, i am somewhere!”
— “What do you see?”
— “I see a store”
— “where do you need to go?”
— “home”
— “where’s home?”
— “i don’t know”
…
This is crazy
imagine calling in the middle of the night and saying
I’M LOST
We used to call or mail the AA with a route we needed to do and they would calculate and mail a printed copy of the route for you to use. Then we had things like Autoroute on the PC so we could do this ourselves and print it out. I thought I was the tech king when I had a PocketPc connected to a GPS receiver in the car so I could navigate with TomTom.
Would be more helpful with mobile phone technology
Even better some automobile associations could also provide “pilots” who would meet you somewhere in their car and you would follow them in your car to the destination you designated. I used it once when I transferred interstate as a teenager. We are talking late 1980’s. Seriously I am not making this up.