To anyone with a GPS system, a singer opening at a Manhattan cabaret next week may sound familiar.

Karen Jacobsen, who will be belting out ballads at the Laurie Beechman Theatre on 42nd St., is the soothing voice that tells Garmin owners when to make a turn.

– Edgar Sandoval, N.Y. Daily News.

I guess I should first mention that I hate the GPS device, like probably more than it is rational to hate a machine. It was sort of a necessary evil when I moved to Westchester because my wife and I were so unfamiliar with the area, but I always prefer to map out routes on my own before going anywhere.

Still, every so often — less frequently now that I’ve got the lay of the land — I wind up trying to get someplace in a rush, or trying to get someplace unfamiliar starting from a location that’s not my house, and just plug the address into the stupid thing. Then I can be almost certain it’s taking me on some dumb route that totally fails to consider where there’s likely to be traffic, but I have no way of getting out of it because I’m all disoriented because of the machine.

Anyway, one of the worst parts about it is Karen Jacobsen’s obnoxious tone when you miss a turn or something. You can tell she gets really pissed off, and she’s all, “Make a U-Turn,” or whatever. Don’t tell me what to do, lady! I’ll turn when I damn please. Do you not see the Wendy’s up the road? I’m going to that Wendy’s. Stop judging me.

I long ago switched the settings on my Garmin to use the female German voice, even though I don’t understand a lick of German. German just sounds hilarious to me, and I always feel like I’m in good hands with the Fraulein.

I do kind of wonder what Jacobsen’s cabaret act sounds like, and if her hit single is something like, “In 200 Feet, Turn Left.”