Well ... since I couldn't decide where to mount my gauges yet, I picked up a Garmin C-330 GPS to temporarily satisfy me. My friend has one and it is COOL, however it lacks one VERY important feature .... the ghetto button !!

So last thursday night I bought my new Garmin eager to use it on friday to get to my campground. Even though I knew how to get there, I decided to let the Garmin send me and maybe learn a new way

BOY DID I !!!

AfterI left work, things started normally, however it sent me down a road I've never been down before. I'd always wondered where the road went, so I followed. COOL ... a new way to get to an area that is now shorter !! Since that worked out, I continued to follow along. Well ... not too long after I realized that I should have gone my usual route. After following my little Garmin through the back roads, I QUICKLY realized that I was now in an area of Philly that you really don't want to wind up in. Put it this way .... if your looking for drugs, you've come to the right spot, otherwise, you have no business being there.

Get it ??

I got out of there as soon as I could and thank God the sun was still out, otherwise it may have been the end of Mayfair. Obviously with the Cummins with a missing silencer ring and an Aero, SNEAKING through there wasn't happining. EVERYONE saw me comming through with a look of " WTF is HE doing here " ??



I think the Garmin ROCKS, it just needs the "GHETTO" button so it knows to re-route you.



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lol yea an avoid the ghetto tastic regions.

 

Weren't you missing a center cap? You should have stopped and asked the nice fella's down there if they had any extras you could take off their hands. Surely they have lots of unwanted parts down there. I've never heard of those clowns trading centercaps for dope, at least not yet.

Actually it is good you made it out of there.

 

mayfair next time you go to that yogi bear campground gimme a pm cuz hopefully by then i'll have my CTD we can do a little meet and greet. it'd be nice to meet the legendary df smartass.

 

Ben, I went to a different one. It was in Jersey.

I was actually looking for you a week or so ago when I was thinking about going to the truck pull. I was trying to get Mopar to go and I wanted to see if you were going to be there as well.

Oh well ... next time

 

LOL ... if I would have stopped I think I would be missing more than just a center cap.

 

That made me think of national lampoons vacation when they stop in the ghetto and while asking for directions the guys take all the hub caps.

 

lol yea i was gonna go to the pull too but some good friends of the family wanted to go out to dinner for my graduation soo didn't make it down. dodge faired real well from what i heard. won the drag race and truck pull. if ur in that region and see a black jeep wrangler with a tan ragtop it's probably me. for some reason arnt too many black jeeps with atha top aroudn there.

 

First of all it is not the ‘ghetto’ it is an ‘area of lower socio-economics’.

Well my dear Mr. Mayfair if you have a suggestion for the advancement of software I recommend you contact the software manufacture. The only way a company will know what software ‘upgrades’ to offer is if they hear from their customers. Now I would not recommend you request a ‘ghetto button’ but maybe an ‘avoidance section’. The GPS software I run on my laptop has this function. It was very handy when making the drive from Texas to Washington; I could set it to avoid bad strips of road or even towns I didn’t want to drive through.
http://www8.garmin.com/support/

Or you could complain to the city and ask them to fence the entire place in and require ID to enter...oh yeah that doesn't work for our country how could we make that work for a city.

 

Better tell them to add an "Avoid Sesame Street" button too.



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