Friday Fictioneers – Write a 100-word story based on the Photo Prompt image above by © Fleur Lind
Recalculating
You leave me plugged in to recharge while you sleep, with those travel bugs dancing about in your head. At dawn, I get placed on your car’s windscreen.
Your car purrs into life. You tap my screen for directions.
Three two, one …the fun starts by the first corner. My calm demeanor always sets you off. You hate it when I tell you to do a u-turn where possible in 3-lane traffic.
At this point, your colourful insults start. I’m amazed at how you develop new ones for each trip. But I remain resiliently sweet.
It’s my way or the highway…what’s it to be?
Thanks for reading
This is a 100-word version of a short story I wrote for our local paper on 13 December 2017. How time flies!
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This is too funny 🤣. Thankfully they don’t record. Love this!
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Aww thank you, T! I have a longer version on my short stories page on my website. Yes imagine if they did record! Omg! Lol
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Malevolent, huh? I always think they’re a patient, loving, but disappointed parent
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I have a love/ hate relationship with our gps. If it doesn’t send me down the wrong road then that’s okay. When it does the right thing especially when I get a turning lane in heavy traffic, I tell it it’s wonderful!
A patient, loving, but disappointed parent? That’s an interesting one!
This GPS has an agenda, for sure, just to add a twist 🙂
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Mine has a mind of its own too, annoying little thing!
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They are, aren’t they. Thanks so much, Keith 🙂
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Haha! I like to think there’s a ghost in the machine at work too!
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I’m the same. It’s a sort of a comfort having a polite calm voice pop up and tell you where to go!
Thank you dorahak 🙂
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Exactly so! You’re welcome, Martha.
~ Dora
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Excellent!
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Thank you so much! 🙂
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Nice and a bit ful of itself, that gps, isn’t it? maybe a reminder that there is a thing like maps still around. Fun story.
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I swear those devices have a capricious streak programmed into them. They’ve taken me to some unbelievable out-of-the-way “shortcuts” that are difficult to recover from. Funny story and I agree that it’s good they don’t record our responses lol
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It took me down a dirt road once…I should have ignored it but I said, okay, if you say so…
The dirt turned to gravel then to big stones, boulders. I tried to do that u-turn where possible and git bogged as we’d had heavy rain that morning! Luckily a local was passing and pulled me out. So now I just glare at the gps as I pass that wrong turn lol
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LMAO. Not funny at the time, but…
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Oh not at all funny at the time, sheer relief to be pulled out, and really funny to think about now lol
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And 💯 they have a capricious streak!
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Recalculating. Where have I seen/heard that before? Fun and relatable story.
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Thanks Bill, yes very relatable!
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Dear Fleur,
I’ve found there are certain parts of town where the GPS has taken us to the wrong place. AI isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be, is it? I remember the “good old days” when relied on paper roadmaps. 😉 Fun story and photo. Thank you.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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No AI isnt all its cracked up to be at all. Ahh remember those days of paper maps! Thanks so much, Rochelle 🙂
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