The death of a Trusty friend

It is with a heavy heart that we report the sudden and unexpected death of our trusty navigator, James.

It happened yesterday on our way to Griffith. It became obvious that he was getting upset because we were ignoring his seemingly, continuous statement “YOUR OVER THE SPEED LIMIT” when going through a school zone (on Sunday) He suddenly lost the satellite connection and appeared to be completely lost, reciting over and over “re calculating route” turn left, turn right etc….We should have taken it as a sign that things were not quite right but we ignored him and continued on the freeway. We did restart him a few times, but always with the same result….Finally, he emitted an ear piercing buzz, which, looking back now, was his last hurrah. We could not turn it off and so it continued, even with the plug out, until, he was finally laid to rest, when the battery ran out. Saddened, but relieved the noise had ceased, we managed to find our own way to Griffith. It may be, that we just expected too much of him and he died of overwork.
Worried that we might continually get lost for the remainder of the trip, we went straight into Dick Smiths to purchase a new one (poor James, barely passed on more that 5 minutes!) Our new navigator could be Lee (Male,) or Karen. Lee is a cross between English and Australian. Karen is just plain AUSSIE. As we feel comforted by having a male around, I think we will give Lee a go first.
I will report at a later date, on how he is doing.
Vicki