I decide to take a different way into the office today, as I am trying to find the way the taxi drivers took me which would avoid the Sri Hartamas route, which is snarled on a Friday due to prayers. I set off OK, and the roads look familiar, but Daniel (UK, English - the GPS voice) tells me to do a U-turn nearby, which I don’t ever remember the cab drivers doing.
As I don’t want to get lost, I follow the directions and I am sort of on a familiar road – the one where there are road works to put a new road into the Palace opposite where I am living… so I am on the right tracks. I get so far along the way and things are not looking too familiar, and then I am instructed to “keep right on Lebuhraya Sprint, keep right” which takes me off the main road and in towards Bangsar. Not wanting to get lost, I follow.
Then suddenly Daniel (UK English) starts panicking and saying “recalculating, recalculating” whilst I head in towards the city, in the wrong direction.
Great.
After Daniel (UK English) recalculates a new route for me, I end up on Jalan Parlamen, which was probably intended to get me back to heading towards work - only for him to direct me right up to the police block outside the Kuala Lumpur Parliament Offices! I smile at the guards and do a U-turn, all the time Daniel telling me he is “recalculating”, and I head back down and get back to the spot just before Bangsar.
I eventually get onto the familiar roads and make it into the office twenty minutes after I should have been. Someone in the office looked at their watch when I came in, and I mentally decked them.
I try a new journey home tonight, trying to retrace my journey to the office, and I got lost again! Unbelievable! Well, to be honest, the roads junctions are so complicated and it’s not always obvious how to just go back in the other direction:
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