Women and GPS

Met up with my city-based friends last weekend for the much needed catch up. Before we went home, we decided to check out Folded and Hung's newly opened outlet store that sells everything under Php250.00. When women hears "SALE" they get their hearts and blood pumping, so Thea decided to use WAZE to show us where to go.Thea, our resident, designated driver and best directions navigator has this application downloaded on her tab called WAZE, where it shows you the routes to go to get to a place.

First you type the destination and it shows you the list of the address to choose from. It looked like this:

Waze gets their info from four square and other location based social media. You can also add an additional location to be shared with other waze users. It showed two addresses. 

One says just plain Quezon Avenue and the other one with the street number and address. So we chose the more specific one.

Ideally, navigation should be like this. We drive along the purple line. 

 

I'm actually impressed how accurate it is. It tells you, through voice prompt, when to turn and how kilometers near are you to the place you need to be. We chose the option for Passenger Navigator because it also has a setting that will not allow you to be on the phone/tab while you drive. It's really good really. I'm very impressed. 

Actually, all three of us girls in this ride worked and lived in Quezon City. Thea remains the resident of Quezon City so we actually know how to get there. But we decided to go along WAZE instructions to see if its really accurate.But then, while driving, we got W-T-F?! moments like this:

 Even WAZE thinks were nuts that we actually fell out of the purple trail. 

When you change routes, waze re-calculates your route real-time and suggests another route for you to go.

We knew the address is in Quezon Avenue. We should've been there 20 minutes ago, but we found ourselves in Caloocan because we got so curious where WAZE will take us this time. We're actually running out of gas but we decided to push with this trip since waze tells us that we are near our destination. We passed by near squatters area, really narrow streets, pile up of construction trucks and we even reached china town's temple. 

Finally, when WAZE said: You have reached your destination, there's no outlet store in sight. Instead this is what we saw:

WTF?! Where the hell is the outlet store?! 

So we figured out some jackass might have ruined other peoples chance for a SALE so we decided to ask help from waze to get to EDSA so we can get back on track and go to Quezon Ave, on our instincts this time.

But finally, we used WAZE again to get back to EDSA and followed our instincts this time and a little help from WAZE then finally we saw the outlet:

Good news: We were able to find the outlet sale.

Bad News: Clothes were way out of season. Like 2008. 

But if you get lucky and haggle, you might find a classic piece or two.