It blows my mind talking to my grandpa. His first question is how was traffic and the next is how did I get there. Then he'll say well next time take the 5 for 3.9 miles, then hop on 78 until you see the 420 then do a triple lane change to the 69 then you're home. And then I'm like sure thing grandpa I'll remember that for sure, as I'm tapping the home button on google maps lol.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago

My uncle was visiting a few months ago from overseas and I was driving him somewhere in my home town, and he off-handedly mentioned a different route he'd taken to get there in the 1960s lol

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"How did you get here?"

"I dunno, I just did what my GPS said!"

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 25 points 1 year ago

"I followed the blue line until it told me to stop"

[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That was me on driver license course, lol.

[–] raptir@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Then he’ll say well next time take the 5 for 3.9 miles, then hop on 78 until you see the 420 then do a triple lane change to the 69 then you’re home.

Without even knowing where those roads are I see you are on the West Coast.

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is this that "Californians" SNL sketch?

[–] Klystron@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

I had never seen that before... It's so accurate lmfao

[–] raptir@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

No, it's real life. I mean yeah I know the sketch, but I was in Crater Lake and heard people actually talking like that.

[–] remotedev@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

5 and 78 meet up on San Diego county

[–] comador@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Gen X and prior used a lot of landmarks to get from A to B where routes were commonly used. Landmark navigation is still heavily used today in places like India and Mexico where routes change hourly sometimes due to road closures and accidents that gps mapping cannot account for.

I once had to drive pre-google from Paris, France to Madrid, Spain and then to Valencia, Spain with nothing more than a AAA Auto Club map and a Philips Road Atlas. Not fun in many eays, but it was an adventure.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

When grandpa asks "how did you get here" its a trap. Whatever answer you give will be wrong and will correct you with a lecture

[–] SleepingLesson@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is California as fuck.