I am currently studying in college and part of my college course dictates that I most do a work experience placement. I ended being placed in a charity shop. The first couple of days went well. Its a small little shop in a shopping center so there wasn’t much for me to do. So they decided that today I’ll do some work in the warehouse where they receive their goods.
They gave me the address but they forgot the bus so I ended taking a bus that stopped at a 20 minutes walk away. I got off the bus and tried to find this warehouse with the help of Google maps. It kept constantly telling me to go in different directions for the next 40 minutes. So I was walking around in 0 degrees Celsius weather is just a jumper. I eventually managed to find the correct area but it was in a big industrial park. I went searching around for 40 minutes and it turns out all they had to identify them is like a tiny wooden sign. So I finally got to my placement nearly 2 hours late. They were quite forgiving about it though since apparently that has happened to a few other before.
Out last house had two street names and numbers assigned to it.
The first set of info came from the original planning of the suburb, and all the utilities connect to that. All mail comes to the second info because some dumbass put the mailbox on the wrong side of the lot. (Which caused the postal service to assign a mailing address that made sense to them.) The house had big numbers matching the mailing address when we moved in.
Google refused to change to the mailing address since it didn’t match the suburb lot plan.
We thought it was hilarious so we just rolled with it, and explained when friends inevitably got lost while using Google or Apple maps not to trust them too much.