taxi driver

[fuggy]

can anyone go one better?

i recieved a call from my son who was a barcelonas airport. he asked me to go onto the net and to to locate the hotel where he was staying,and directions to it. these were for the taxi driver. the wonders of the web.

[lady_p_gold]

I was driving to Cheltenham and could not find my hotel so I called my friend in Los Angeles and they went onto the internet and found a road map and for the final twenty minutes of my drive he directed me there !!!

[chazza]

My parents phoned me from the states with the web address of the webcam of the swimming pool where they were staying and i was able to print out a pic of them waving at me!

[Xollob]

Apparently during George Bush's recent visit to Germany, a cavalcade was sent from Berlin to pick up Condoleeza Rice from some provincial airport out in the east. The cavalcade got lost. Instead of asking a kindly policeman the way to the airport - or reading a map, even - they rang up the NSA headquarters near Washington. The NSA were able to tweak their spy satellites and give them directions...

[minti]

My husband, in his youth, worked as a footman in Government House, Perth, Australia. When his mother (in Scotland) heard that the queen was to visit there she wrote to her and asked her to say 'hello' to her son...... and she did !
(nothing to do with the wonders of the web but great PR don't you think)

[dzug]

There was an article in today's paper about someone taking a mini-cab in London and having to type his destination into the driver's satnav because the latter knew no English whatsoever.