To think people who own a Sat Nav are lazy sods or just probably not intelligent enough to read a map?

[GordontheGopher]

They only send you into a field anyway.

Complete waste of money.

No read all of thread but I haven't got a satnav of my own however dh has 2 tom toms from wprk and I LOVE THEM, I AM A MEMBER OF THE TOM TOM APPRECIATION SOCIETY!!!

Am getting one of my own for Christmas

I have more letters after my name than in it but am hopeless with directions - or have topographical agnosia (ooh err). If you can walk out of a shop on Oxford Street and not know which direction you were going in when you entered it, or not know how to leave a nursing home and want to walk into the broom cupboard, like me, then sat nav is a great blessing

our Tomtom is great. there have been odd times when driving on a new road, where it had thought that we were in the middle of a field, but that was because we have not upgraded the mapping software for over 2 years.

While driving in France we were once asked to go down a one way street, but we ignored the instruction, and the Tomtom recalculated our route with no problems at all.

Never been set to Mumbai or San Fransisco when trying to go to Mablethorpe or Safron Walden! Honest!

herbiethe cat I never knew it had a name!! I get lost at conferences/hospitals all the time!! And regularly do the wrong direction walking out of shops. I've ended up in some wierd and wonderful places in my time!!

Malory, I really really wish I could do that because you know that Tom could break down and leave us high and dry. It's a skill I sorely lack and admire in other people.

But so far, Tom has seen me right. Tom is a godsend. I had a lot of stress driving before but now I can go and see friends wherever, whatever, no problem.

Peacelilly - it's always great to meet a fellow hopeless person

(Are you good at recognising faces? I'm pretty hopeless at that too - and they often go together. Now, when they invent "face nav" I'll be well away!)

I was never really interested in ours untill a phonecall from my mum to say my dad had been taken ill at three o'clock in the morning. They had been staying at friends in a totally different part of the country when he was taken seriously ill. DH looked up postcode of the hospital, put TomTom in my car for me and off I went! Took me straight there.

I will be in love with it forevermore!

I love SatNav. I'm an excellent mapreader and we never get lost; but I prefer putting the SatNav on and chatting to dh or listening to the radio or CDs than trying to remember to concentrate on the map or look out for roadsigns. It's much more relaxing.

We rarely argue but the only times we have got very annoyed with each other have been navigating, with a map, in a town with extensive roadworks, and THEN when the aircon made the satnav not work properly. It's clear that no Thomas Thomas = fights. So I'd rather have it.