We have two cars. It's important that you understand that I said two and not twenty-two. So you would think that with only two cars I could remember where everything is located inside them.
You would be wrong.
I took our van to work today. Pat stayed home and so I left her the Subaru. It was dark when I left this morning so the first thing I did was, of course, turn on the windshield wipers. Huh? What the heck?! How do I turn them off? Oh, here it is. Oops, I just sprayed window cleaner on the windshield! But now, naturally, I've turned off the wipers. D'oh! Ok, wipers on. Good. Clean the windshield. Good. And here are the lights. Finally!
So now I'm off. I go to make my first turn. I put on my blinker. Oops. Nope, I seem to have found the high beams and now I've blinded the oncoming traffic. That's bad, I'm pretty sure. I manage to find the high beam button and dim the lights. Oncoming traffic manages to avoid me, but they are obviously unhappy with me as they are more than happy to demonstrate with various gestures and light flashing. Sorry, guys.
The rest of the trip was, thankfully, uneventful.
The thing is, when I'm in the other car, I make the same damn mistakes! I can never remember which car (there's only two, remember) does what. And god forbid I have to fill the tank. Each vehicle has the gas tank on the opposite side of the other one. Fortunately there are little arrows on the dash telling me which is which or I'd be forever getting it wrong. Unfortunately, I always struggle to find those little arrows.
I'd like to think that everyone is like this but I have a funny feeling that they're not. I'd also like to be able to explain it all away by saying that I'm just getting old but, sadly, I know that I've been this way all my life.
Sheesh! I'm such a mess.
Posted by Buzz at November 25, 2003 05:41 PMThese are some of the many reasons I love you, honey!
Posted by: Empress at November 25, 2003 05:53 PMOh jeez, I'm the same way, and I drive the van 95% of the time. I always panic when it rains, because between the wipers, the wiper settings, and the headlights during the day I'm just lost.
Posted by: TW at November 25, 2003 06:30 PMThat's why we have 2 Saturns.
Posted by: Solonor at November 25, 2003 06:33 PMAt your age, experience should tell you to have some brand loyalty. Buy one brand and everything will be identical in both vehicles. :D
Posted by: Psycho Dad at November 25, 2003 07:08 PMHAHAHAHAHHAHA....:) thanks for the good laugh Buzz, that's like me on Sunday. I was apparently in the wrong lane and didn't realize it and was wondering why people were turning down the lane...my sister goes um dork...its a two lane road that's why they all are giving you evil looks. I said OH! and I was wondering what the hell THEY were doing? *hee hee* it happens to the best of us :)
Posted by: Meeta at November 25, 2003 08:41 PMThey say:
Don't worry if you forget where you left the keys. Worry if you forget which house they unlock.
Posted by: Frac at November 25, 2003 08:54 PMI can imagine doing the exactly same thing! =) Luckily we only have one car, so I usually remember where everything is.
Posted by: Kirsi at November 26, 2003 02:34 AMWow. Reading that was like deja vu. We have 4 (don't ASK) cars. Pontiac, Toyota, Volkswagen, and Dodge. 3 of them have the lights on the turn signal stalk, wiper on the right, and gas on the passanger side. One (thanks, Dodge) has the lights on the dash, wipers on the left, and gas on the drivers side. Now I realize why the thieves abandoned it!
That's always been one of my peeves-car interior standardization. No two cars have anything in the same place with the same button. Auto designers must rack their brains coming up with new ways to do the same thing.
Posted by: ken at November 26, 2003 07:18 AMwe have a honda accord and a honda odyssey. thankfully, just about everything is in the same place!
just remember that the important things are all in the same place: steering wheel, gas pedal, brake.
Posted by: tj at November 26, 2003 08:50 AMSuffice it to say, "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree". You came by this problem naturally.
Posted by: Cassie-B at November 26, 2003 09:17 AMYorkieMom suffers from this, as well.
Posted by: keith at November 26, 2003 10:14 AM
-d: How do you feel about being Governor of Indiana?
[Buzz it]
Global Warming, my ass!
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