I’m off to Boston this weekend for the third Aging By Design conference at Bentley College.

I just went to print my hotel confirmation, and noticed that they apparently were trying to be helpful and give me driving directions to the hotel. Except that the first six directions leave a little to be desired:

Depart Start on Local road(s) (West), 0.4 mile
Turn RIGHT (North) onto Local road(s), 0.06 miles
Bear LEFT (West) onto Local road(s), 0.01 miles
Bear RIGHT (West) onto Local road(s), 0.02 miles
Merge onto Local road(s), 0.2 miles
Bear RIGHT (West) onto Local road(s), 0.63 miles
Take Ramp (LEFT) onto I-90 [Mass Pike], 2.93 miles

Of course, I’m confusing them entirely, since I’m taking the train into town, but picking up my car at the airport (I’m guessing these are from South Station…hard to tell, since it doesn’t list starting point!).

But here’s a helpful hint to programmers everywhere. Most cars don’t have odometers that read to the hundredth of a mile, so if it’s less than a tenth of a mile, converting to feet or yards would probably be better.