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Cal Carpenter

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17. I got a frantic phone call once from someone trying to get to the place where I worked

Thu Apr 2, 2015, 09:28 AM

Apr 2015

His GPS had sent him several miles out of the way (like 8 or 10 miles). He was SO MAD and was taking it out on me. Our location, while on the outskirts of a pretty big city, was sort of unfamiliar even to most locals, so I was used to people calling for help getting there. I offered to stay on the phone and talk him through the whole way there, but he was SO MAD and said he didn't want to do that - he wanted me to make his GPS show him.

I was like, sorry dude, I can't help you with that.

He never did show up.

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