GPS, Where art thou?

Well, got a GPS for Christmas and will begin using it as soon as I can locate it. I have apparently "put it in a safe place" which, in my home, is liberally interpreted to mean, "don't have a frigging clue what I did with the thing, when I did it, why I did it or why I am now blaming you and/or the cat for moving it in a malicious manner."

Now, I believe I should have also asked for one of those clap-on, clap-off things. Would have been a good thing to attach to a bell and then to the GPS. Would make it a complete package for those of us who are, shall we say, a bit directionally challenged. Now, given that I often temporarily misplace full size cars in large parking lots, solely as a method of getting in my daily exercise I might add, this temporary confusion should not and does not come as a surprise to me, anyone who knows me or the cat.

The GPS does have this real cool feature called "Where am I?" that I believe I paid a bit more to get. I was quite jazzed about it, I recall. But, it's not like the device is going to phone its location in to me, now is it? Who cares if it knows where the heck it is?

Somewhere, there is an 18-year-old GPS engineer laughing his buttocks off because he invented the "Where am I" useless feature and probably got a royalty when I purchased the same. He's probably at MIT. I'd go visit the punk to ask him just what was he thinking but, of course, that would require an ability to find the place using something like, let's say for example, a GPS. I'm thinking the kid is safe.