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OK, I am gong to admit a deficiency in me - I am directionally challenged. It didn't matter with my husband as he could find anything anywhere and never make a wrong turn. I bought my car in 2009 and after he died, I had to read the car's book to find out which buttons to push to make stuff happen - like lights and windshield wipers, unimportant things like that.

So, I had a TomTom GPS to guide me where I needed to go. I had to go to a new place in Huntsville about a month ago, and the TomTom wouldn't go to the map, it just stayed on the main picture of TomTom. When I got where I was going, it turned on and showed me where I was - big -——— deal.

So, yesterday I need to take a road I haven't been on to get over to a big highway. I fought with the TomTom to get it on and it took me around the world in the country to get to that highway. There was nothing on this country road, no restaurant, nothing but manufacturing plants and they weren't open as it was Sunday. When I finally came to something open, a nice lady told me where to go and that freaking TomTom was not sending me there.

The TomTom became the freaking squirrels. Twice it had screwed up, that time not coming on and yesterday sending me miles out of the way. And that wasn't all it did. I would look down to see the road and it had turned itself to some picture and kept doing that so I couldn't even see the road on it. I jerked it out of its hookup after the lady told me where to go.

Today, I ordered a Garmin nüvi 52 5-Inch Portable Vehicle GPS (US). I cannot get to places I have not been before unless it is fairly direct. It was working when I went to rightly’s house or I may have never gotten there and back.

I can get turned around easily and not know where I am. Unless the sun was shining, I wouldn't know north/south/west/east. I hate being like this but that's just the way it is. I do know how the stuff works on my car now.