Now don't get me wrong, the march of technology is a wonderful thing. Cars, Microwaves, TV, computers etc all help in our daily lives. And are usually very useful, but sometimes they do create more problems then they solve. So when Engineseer uttered the fateful words " I'll use my satnav" We should have all seen what was coming a mile off.
* Flashback time*
After institute on Wednesday as he is now our class president, Engineseer came up with the idea of going to McDonalds(maybe he was suffering withdrawal symptoms :-) So as with all highly effective YSA planning this resulted in a very long conversation/argument in the carpark between the YSA as to which McDonalds was the closest. Engineseer finally suggested in order to break the deadlock that he would use his satnav to figure out which was the closest Mcdonalds and we would follow him in convoy. So off we went...... and went.......and went.... I realized that we were heading into the middle of town, which seemed odd, then we were heading out of town.... at which point myself and the YSA in the car behind were communicating via non verbal communication as we had no idea where we were going. We continued to head out of town and I then had a sudden nasty suspicion of where we were going. We ended up at the Mcdonalds which was on the 'way home' for us and if we had gone the direct route would have taken about 10 minutes to get to, as opposed to the magical mystery tour around Leicester that took nearly 25 minutes instead!.
Admitally the magical mystery tour was down to the best of intentions. Engineseer was originally leading us to a Mcdonalds right in the centre of town and realized that at half nine on a Wednesday night it would not be a good place to be, so he 'reprogrammed on the fly' and lead us back to the other McDonalds. So it all just goes to show you that you should go with you instincts sometimes not always technology.
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