Maps

Fernando and I had to drive up to Massachusettes a few weeks ago for a family event. Along the way we ran into some traffic and decided to try to find a way around it with the trusty GPS. Apparently, the GPS I have was not really designed for re-reouting. For miles it kept bitching at us... Make uturn, recalculating, make uturn, recalculating. When we finally got sick of the woman telling us to uturn around, we turned her off and pulled out the trusty old map.

But here is my question- what kind of idiot at Rand McNally decided that it was a good idea to make a map that folds out to more than the size of the interior of your car. It literally took up the whole front seat. I'm convinced that Rand McNally and MAACO (the auto body chain) must be in business together. It goes something like this in my mind:

RM executive: ok, we will make the maps large, confusing and distracting in order to cause spousal and-or partner arguments and-or more accidents.

MAACO executive: ok, and in return I shall offer you 30 percent on any map related accidents that come to us for auto body repairs.

See example illustrating ridiculous map size below.