• @Jax@sh.itjust.works
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    96 days ago

    I knew a girl who was instructed to turn left at a roundabout, so she proceeded to turn left when merging into the roundabout.

    Poor girl, fortunately everything was fine (she did fail, but no accidents) but that’s a special kind of ‘too literal’ that loops back around to being dumb.

    • @grue@lemmy.world
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      106 days ago

      And that’s why turn-by-turn navigation systems phrase it as “take the third exit from the roundabout” these days.

      • @gnu@lemmy.zip
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        35 days ago

        One of the work trucks used to have one that said “Go straight through the roundabout”. It was pretty tempting sometimes to take it at its word…