What gives you direction in life?
I’ve never had an aim in live or any job that I want to do (see previous post).
I’m choosing to interpret this question as finding my way around. Mostly I can navigate without help if I have been somewhere before. This baffles our older child, who once asked me how I knew the route from home to Bath (just over 100 miles) without a satnav. All I could say was that I knew it in the same way they knew the way to school. You head north for an hour and a bit until you reach the M4, turn left and then another hour and then follow signs for Bath. Easy.
As far as finding my way on unfamiliar roads goes, I usually rely on Waze, the free satnav app. Or, as we have dubbed it “The Waze Woman”.
Why “The Waze woman”?
Partly because the voice I use is a female voice, it’s the default British English setting. But also because we love to personify the special speaking machines that we trust and which infuriate us.
The name comes from a scene in Blackadder II. Edmund is worried that he fancies young Bob1, his new manservant. After an abuse-filled visit to the doctor2, in desperation he takes a trip to Putney to visit ‘The Wise Woman’.
- Who is actually a woman called Kate. ↩︎
- Where the doctor prescribes Edmund a course of leeches to cure of him of his ‘rather disgusting’ affliction. ↩︎
