I have two GPS stories to share.  First the letters stand for global positioning system, just in case you’ve been living outside this planet and have never heard of a gps.  The government actually has a website at www.gps.gov that explains all about what it is and how it works.  In five languages!  Too lazy to look?  Listen for an OnStar commercial.  They come on pretty often.  Now you know what I’m talking about.  Okay, story number one.  Judge for yourself.  If you live in New Jersey, you may get to vote for yourself.  An Assemblyman from Hudson County, according to TheNewspaper.Com website wants to “…make it a crime…with a fine of $100…to touch a screen of a satellite navigation device in a moving vehicle.”  Manual operation is also included in his proposition.  He wants that to be associated with cellphone use while driving in the big bad no-no’s.  Depending on the kind of car you’re driving, the eyes never have to leave the road and the push of a button can change the voice and direction with a temporary stop on a pre-planned trip.  I wonder if he’s driving a fancy new car with two voices who tell him about his trip’s directions and tell him what some of you reallllly think of his proposal.  Or maybe it’s just  a  few of you.  It ought to be interesting.  There’s no vote yet.  You’ve got time to “drive home” your opinion of his proposal to L. Harvey Smith, d. Hudson County.

GPS Story Number Two.  My Sister, Vivian and her family were returning to Tennessee this past weekend from Georgia.  They had travelled there through Birmingham instead of Atlanta because their gps directed them that particular route.  And “shonuff, as they say down South, it was a shorter distance when they first arrived in Georgia.  So when they set out to return to the Music City, to their surprise, the gps charted a path straight through Atlanta, not Birmingham.  No matter whose local address they tried to put in as a final destination, their path was routed through Georgia,  not Alabama.  It took longer.  But they made it safely.  And that’s always the main concern.  But the question remain…until the next day.  My neice heard over the television a report that a tornado had touched down in the path that they would have taken, had the gps sent them the way they were trying to take.  The reverse path to the way they travelled to Georgia.  I would call that a capital- GPS, God’s Positioning System taking over the manmade kind.  From now on when I turn on my gps, I’m really sending up a prayer that it’s controlled as a GPS.