SEARCH BLOG: SCIENCE
We were visiting my brother-in-law at his new home. It was night, not much light on the streets. Our first time in the neighborhood.
Our GPS announced that we were arriving at our destination, so my wife, who was driving, dutifully pulled over to the curb and stopped. We got out of our vehicle and she proceeded to the house next to our position... which was where our GPS announced the arrival.
I asked if she was sure about this being the house since it was too dark to read the numbers. No, she wasn't. I really wasn't comfortable about knocking on doors in the dark in an unfamiliar area, so I called her brother on my cell phone and he asked where we were. I told him I thought we were in front of his house. He said he didn't see us. I asked him to go out in the street so that I could see him.
He appeared about 1/2 block away. We learned to differentiate between "arriving" and "arrived" because, apparently, the GPS does.
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