Well that's what my new sparkling satnav did as I sped though the lush and green prairies of Eastern Southampton, the sweeping green fields and soaring oaks.... OK I know, I am hallucinating! Anyway, it was my satnav warning me of the neat little, well perhaps not so little, "safety camera" as these money spinning speed cameras are so quaintly called, that was just ahead of us on the road.
I only wish that these devices would be set at the traffic lights in Portsmouth where amber gamblers and the local Kamikaze drivers who fly through the red light a good 2 - 4 seconds after it has changed to red would be singled out and shot, sorry.... heavily fined for their foolishness. Placing these cameras on a perfectly straight road with no pedestrian crossings and no junctions is a pure insult to our intelligence and a blatant and unnecessary means of drumming up cash for HM Government PLC.
Anyway, back to my Satnav. Several times on our journey it warbled into life with a "ding dong" and a small image of a yellow box popping up on the screen that in its self nearly sends you careering off the road with excitement as you start jabbing at the screen with your finger while shouting "there's another one, look"! I will really have to calm down as the subscription to this little service ends very soon and I had promised NOT to switch the feature on when I installed the satnav in the car in the first place. I will just have to watch my speed.
The best thing about this new toy or mine, sorry it's not a toy, it's an advanced in car navigation device. The best thing about it is, I can barely contain myself now, Bluetooth!! Yes, don't we all drool at the prospect of never having to touch our mobile phone again. Are we now safe in the knowledge that we are truly "hands free". We can call people from the satnav, we can receive calls and although we have to shout above the radio and the traffic noise we can talk to anyone who decides to call us when we are flying over the lush green valleys.... Ok, sorry I was off again.
I am the gadget manufacturers gift, phones, satnavs, cameras, watches (not gone there yet) and computers of every shape and size. Although with mobile phones it's so funny to hear two men proudly saying to each other "ohh, mine is much smaller than yours", certainly a conversation and admittance well worth recording !
Off to test the satnav now, quick drive round the block so that I can listen to the dulcet tones of the rather husky voiced "navigator" ordering me left and right...... Oh, and mine is not smaller than anyone Else's, my satnav that is.
Back soon with more reports from the Hampshire hinterlands.........
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