Garmin GPS

(Epson 10000XL.)

We are in receipt of a fantabulous offer for a free Garmin GPS (pictured above) to go with a free checking account from Key Bank.
I can’t help but notice all the streets on the GPS have favorable names.
Heaven forbid they have negatory names like “Acrimony Ave.,” “Frustration Drive,” or “Angst Alley.”
Turn on my GPS (which is my cellphone), and I get “County Road 14” and “Baker Road,” not “Dedication Drive,” “Stability Court,” or “Convenience Road.”
In Los Angeles it was much the same, except we kept running into “Foothill Boulevard.” We weren’t running into “Sweetness and Light.”
And everywhere, traffic-jams.
In Hollywood it was glittering Hummers with garish alloy wheels down to about 1 mph or even less.
Juking and feinting to gain a five-foot advantage. They shoulda installed parking meters right in the street.
No GPS system solves that, nor does naming your streets “Felicity Drive” or “Gratitude Lane.”
In northern Delaware it was “Naaman’s Road” (“NAY-minz”), “Shipley,” “Silverside,” and the misnamed “Foulk” (“Folk” or “Falk”).

“Key Bank” is a nearby bank based in Cleveland.

About five years ago we visited “Los Angeles,” CA.

I have a younger brother who lives in “northern Delaware.” —For years he and I have been having an argument about the spelling of “Foulk” Road. When we moved there in 1957 it was spelled “F-a-u-l-k.” He noisily insists it’s always been spelled with an “O.”