"Destination. Up Ahead. On the right."

Shunning telephone books as I do, it will come as no surprise that I love my car's GPS and have recently fallen in love with Google Text.  You just text a query to the numeric equivalent of GOOGLE (466453) and it immediately texts you back with information.  For instance, if you're hungry and want to find the nearest restaurants, you'd just text RESTAURANT and it will text you back with the nearest restaurants.

Pretty cool, right?  Except when it doesn't work. 

Like this afternoon, when I went to our local Blockbuster after picking up the kids from school and found it empty.  As in, no longer there, empty, closed forever.  I guess we don't go to Blockbuster often enough.  And maybe neither does anyone else around me.  After all, it's true we do most of our movie rental through iTunes now.  But the kids love the experience of walking through the video store, so I was determined to find one.

So I texted Google to direct me to another Blockbuster.  When it texted back, I was surprised to see the address - how could I have missed a Blockbuster so close to my own home? 

I was skeptical but punched the address into my GPS and set out.  A few minutes later we heard the familiar words, "Destination.  Up Ahead.  On the right." 

I snorted derisively as we pulled up.  Nice.