[Karan]: I know it's disgustingly uncool, but I really love Google, and I'll tell you why. In a previous life I used to work for a motorsport team, before I became a self-employed events organiser - all before the children were a glint in their father's eye. Both of these jobs necessitated me travelling around the country and invariably getting lost at some point or another.
Now before you start writing me off as a woman who can't read a map - ssshhh, because I can read a map - just not when I'm alone in the car driving in the dark in the wind and the rain and the sleet and the snow. I certainly didn't have SatNav in the olden times (as our daughter refers to them!). I also used to bomb up and down the M6 quite a bit to and from either the NEC or Birmingham Airport, but this didn't stop me from liking the M42 so much that I'd often stay on it, having missed my junction. Again.
These days I'm off gallivanting all over the place meeting hugely interesting and informative people, but have Google to protect me from the curse of the M42. You see Google maps are so fantastically accurate - especially if you utilise the Street View option - that you'd have to work very hard to get lost; Street View can show you to the door, literally. And now that you can zoom in on the junctions and find landmarks and other reference points, you're done. I even got on and off the M42 last Thursday with absolutely no dramas whatsoever - yay! [rapturous applause]
During May I'm off to Slough (don't I know how to live?!), but I've not been there before and need to find out where my hotel will be, where the venue is and the best route between the two, which Google has helped me with in an instant. No more reversing down a slip road for me!
I'M KIDDING!!!
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