Thursday, 19 April 2012

Google Street View

This story kind of expands on the theme of how my mom is chronically lost. She now gets lost in the digital "worl" too!

I sent my mom a link to a property listing that I've been keeping my eye on for a while. It's near my current area in downtown Edmonton, but my mom wanted to scope it out some more. To try and get a better look, she went on google street view.  

After a few minutes I get a phone call from her:

Mom: The area looks very nice, but I can't find the house... *click click click*

Me: Don't try to find the house by driving around street view. Zoom out of street view and find the address first, THEN go to street view.

Mom: Why is everything in french? Did I change my settings?

Me: I don't know. Maybe you changed your browser settings or something.

Mom: It's very nice but I still can't see the house.

Me: You should be able to see the house. All you need to do is put the address into the search bar. It's not that difficult.

Mom: OH. I'm in Gatineau Quebec.

Me: Omg. That would be why...

THEN after this, as if I already wasn't laughing hard enough...

Me: ANYWAYS the owner has significantly dropped the asking price. It was empty so I think they just want to sell it fast and move on.

Mom: Why does it want gone?

Me: Haha... why does it want gone? I don't know. I guess it's old people trying to sell.

Mom: So expensive.

Me: Yeah. We can't actually afford it. It's across the street from a ravine.

Mom: So what? It's in front of some bushes! Whoopie ding! It's a ripper-downer!

Me: I think you mean a fixer-upper.


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