So it pronounces it like “Monte Carlo”?
Whoa. That anecdote I told was the only time Google did that to me…
… when I drove cross-country to see the eclipse.
I’m not too surprised at that. If you don’t take cross-country trips very often, within this crowd, an eclipse is likely be high on the list of rare reasons you’d choose to travel that way. I wasn’t able to go to the 2024 eclipse due to reasons, but I totally would have gone to that one too if offline stuff hadn’t precluded it, and would not have been surprised at at least one reroute mid-trip. The longer your trip, the more likely something can happen that needs a reroute after you’ve set your route for the entire trip.
What is “brodying”?
We often used it to mean driving off the road, usually in a spirited manner.
And I remember being guided off a jammed freeway and into a maze of residential streets - no frontage road available. Because the GPS was guiding everyone off of the freeway, those residential streets jammed up solid, quick.
I’m a little leery, now, of being guided off a freeway in an area I don’t know.
Was on I-70 near Vail (high in the Rocky Mountains) just before Christmas about 3 years ago when Google Maps said the road was closed ahead and we should take detour. Did that and got onto some snowy secondary roads but I wasn’t too worried, us being in a 4WD truck. After a while the snow got so deep I couldn’t tell where the road was. Got very stuck. Still had cell signal so was able to call a tow truck. It cost $300.00.
Found out shortly thereafter the road was temporarily closed for maintenance and we wouldn’t have had to wait more than 20 minutes.
You have to admit there wasn’t much traffic on the secondary roads, though
IME, ‘brodiying’ is causing a vehicle to slide on gravel or dirt. A lot of people had ‘brodie knobs’ on their steering wheel to help them turn the wheel faster.
‘Brodie’ is named after Steve Brodie.
Brodie’s fame persisted long past his death, with Brodie portrayed in films and with the slang term “Brodie”—as in to “do a Brodie”—entering American vernacular, meaning to take a chance or a leap, specifically a suicidal one.
How it became associated with recklessly operating vehicles, I can only assume.
Is that a regionalism? I’ve only know them as wheel spinners or, more colloquially, necker/necker’s knobs.
Southern California.
As a kid, ‘brodie’ also meant to wipe out spectacularly.
New Jersey.
The guy is famous over a century later for being a reckless daredevil, yet died at age 39 in bed from diabetes and tuberculosis.
The world is weird.
But “brodie” is such a good word. Nice woody sound to it. “Brodie.” Not at all tinny.
What @Ponderoid said, plus the best eclipse-viewing locations didn’t have any particular relation to where the major roads are, so a lot of folks ended up going down back roads in the middle of nowhere.
Once I was heading east on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, trying to get from Ohio to Northern Virginia. A big winter snowstorm effectively shut down the interstate that evening. I pulled off at the first rest area available. Looked at the big map of Pennsylvania on the wall. Found the alternate way by heading south via route 40 to I-68, which led through Cumberland, MD, to I-70, which got me to my destination neat as you please. I found almost no traffic along the way. All I needed was a look at the big map of Pennsylvania at the rest area, and I was good to go. I drove where the blizzard wasn’t.
How did the big map poster show the location of the blizzard?
It didn’t, of course. It so happened that the route I found led away from the blizzard to the south of my planned route.
You’re a Blizzard Wizard!
Going back to a subject from a few days ago, at least some bit of justice:
- Kaden Lopez is accused of bringing a sex toy to a Phoenix Mercury game and throwing it at the seats in front of him.
- A man and his young niece were hit by what’s described as a “green dildo.”
- Lopez was booked into jail on suspicion of several charges, including assault.
Couldn’t even manage to throw it all the way to the court. Figures.