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Robin2
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 Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:18 pm Post subject: Unusual use for TomTom |
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I could not have been more grateful for TomTom last Saturday night. I had the unpleasant task of bringing my four year old grandson away from a party he did not want to leave. I carried him across the car park with him screaming Mummy (with all the publicity about little Maddy McCann I'm amazed that nobody challenged me!) and sat him on his booster seat in the back. In desperation I turned on TomTom and told him that the lady in the box knew the way back to his house and he was transfixed - he was talking back to Jane all the way home!
Robin
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Add some custom POI alerts that mention him by name...
He'll love that  |
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DennisN
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Or get Andy to teach you (he taught me) how to use something like Audacity and record your grandson giving you some POI warnings. I have a couple of grandchildren shouting "Wake up Dennis, Speed Camera ahead". It's rubbish quality because they couldn't concentrate on the job for long, but Vera is totally captivated by it - it was the first thing we heard on our way home from Cardiff airport last week. The kids are tremendously proud of it too. I have no idea how to replace them with a decent warning now - not the mechanics, how to persuade Vera to let me use something intelligible!!!
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If it tastes good - it's fattening.
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PaulBt
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And of course, Dennis, on the 720 you can now have them shouting "Turn left Grandpa, left, No Left, LEFT, LEFT, oh keep on going then!"
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MaFt
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Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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| PaulBt wrote: | And of course, Dennis, on the 720 you can now have them shouting "Turn left Grandpa, left, No Left, LEFT, LEFT, oh keep on going then!"
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"not THAT left... the OTHER left..." |
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Andy_P
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| Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 11:58 am Post subject: |
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"not THAT left... the OTHER left..." |
MaFt... What have you been doing driving around with my wife??  |
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