While this has been a train tour, when we get to the 11 cities we’ve visited over the past 15 days, we rent a car—and for the first time have been traveling with our new GPS. So, it’s the first time we’ve ever relied on “the lady,” as Diane calls he, in the GPS to tell us where we need to go. She is always right, even when she doesn’t seem to be—“just listen to the lady” has been Diane’s mantra (which she likes better than “just trust me” when she was the map-mistress, and google maps sometimes failed her.) But the voice of “the lady” is now a constant part of our driving life—balancing her volume level and the radio’s is very subtle work—and we’re enjoying getting to know her, especially the way she says “recalculating” after we’ve missed a turn with just a touch of snippiness in her voice.

Because “the lady” so improves the marital relationship in the car, we began to wonder if it’s time for someone to create a GPS for men to use during sex, the other place where they generally don’t know where everything is and how to get where they are supposed to be. During one long drive when we got really punchy, we imagined a whole GPS seduction scene. And, of course, when the guy got too excited too quickly, we knew exactly what “the lady” would say:

Recalculating.

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