Fictitious Endeavours

(That's both a title and mission statement).


Decided I will try to post here once a month-ish, even if it's just random foolishness. I have a separate, locked drama blog that I'm regularish on, but there are people friended here and not there so I should start posting my stupider, funner randomness here. (Side note: sentence structure and realness of words is flexible when it's 2AM).


SO.....

My middle of the night revelation; Google maps walking directions are either designed by a troll with homicidal tendencies or an AI who hates us and wants us dead. (If Google gets self driving cars on the road, we're all doomed).

So a couple months ago, we set up an urban hike for the Scouts - our famous Ice Cream Crawl. (Just like it sounds we spend approx 4 hours and 5 five miles hitting every Ice Cream seller we can). I tried to use Google maps to set a 5 mile route since it has the handy mileage tracker and lets you have stops.

And...

It USED TO warn you...BIG disclaimer - "walking routes [biking routes] not checked for safety." Fine. EXCEPT of course when I went to look just now, those warnings are GONE. Umm...

I think we need a visual to grasp the horror.

( pic below )