Why Does Google Maps Give Me Directions to Earth?

You know how when you are looking for directions somewhere and you are using Google Maps, and you type in the whole friggin' address – I mean the whole thing, the whole stupid effing thing, “4356 Monte Vista Blvd, Albuquerque, NM, 85706, USA” and Google Maps is supposed to take you there, bring it up nice and quick, and then, while you are looking at it, if you want to get a little bit further out so you can see the cross streets, you just click on the arrow thingy, and then it backs you out of the view just a little bit? Just a little bit so you can see the whole town or whatever? Yeah, that's the ticket.
Well, when I do that, when I click on the little arrow thingy, I must click on it the wrong way, or click in the wrong place, or click on the super secret IT person's little joke area, because it doesn't just zoom out a little bit, it zooms all the way out, all the way out to Earth, to a view of the whole friggin' Earth!
And there, in the middle of Earth, is a little red arrow, marked "A," as if to say, "Here you are dummy, here's what you're a looking for. Is this zoomed out enough for you? Are you happy now? Does this help you, you hopeless, illiterate moron?"
No, F-U Google! That does not help! I just typed in the bleedin' address, didn't I? I already know it's Earth! Did you think I was looking for Albuquerque on some other planet! "Gee I wonder if Monte Vista Boulevard is on Neptune?"
What kind of low grade, space-traveling, head-slappin' Martian imbecile is this feature for anyway? “Oh, yeah! That’s where I want to go! Earth! Right on in there somewhere—that’s where I’m headed! Good old Earth!”
Why the hell is this feature even there? Who needs this? Who doesn’t know that the address they are looking for is on Earth? Who on Earth doesn't already know that New Mexico is on Planet Earth? Even the most ignorant of lumbering ignoramuses who couldn't tell New Mexico from a boil on their voluminous behind probably at least knows that the place is not on Venus!
Maybe they think I am some clumsy, useless, astronaut who got voted off "Survivor: Space Shuttle" for playing with the floating urine bags too much, and there I am, tumbling around in zero G on my iPhone, hoping my oxygen doesn't run out while I try to figure out the way back to that alternate landing site at Edwards Air Force Base I read about somewhere.
If this feature is absolutely necessary, maybe they should make you click a button first to activate it, the "Google Duh!" button. It will also inform you of other things that retrograde Cro-Magnum survivors might not know, like "To get there, you may need to walk upright -- no, one your feet!" and "Although you may think you can climb a tree and jump off and fly, like you saw that squirrel do, if you do it, you'll die."
Does Google know something we don't about the existence of life on other planets? Is Google really on a Death Star? Are they just getting us ready for Google Universe? Or are they just trying to drive the good people of Earth insane?
Well, you know what Google? You wouldn't know Uranus from a hole in the ground, and that's a fact you can chew on all the way to the bank!



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Comments
Funny stuff. I wish you'd write more often.
Hilarous post!
Rated.
Ha! Ha! Perhaps a misplaced Martian? ;o)
Rated.