I think I've blogged before that I love my Porsche Cayenne. It's fast. It satisfies my need to drive a family-friendly car but also one that's fast. Because I'm a soccer mom, literally, I mostly drive to and from school, soccer practice, karate lessons, guitar lessons, etc. It's unusual for me to drive much more than 35 mph, but at least I'm the fastest 0 - 35 mom out there.
(Note: this is a stock photo and not me driving the car. If it were me, it would be a picture of the car stopped in front of an elementary school. I thought this was cooler.)
Of course, when you drive a high-end car like that, you have to put up with a lot of the "advances" that come with it. These advances include things like when I drive without my seat belt, it bitches and bitches at me, bonging and bonging until I just want to either put the seat belt on or shoot myself. Be aware: I ALWAYS wear my seat belt, but there's occasion when I'm driving from Block Buster Video all the way across the parking lot to King Soopers, and, while I know that I'm taking my life into my hands driving less than 5 mph thru the parking lot, sometimes I feel like I'm capable of making the decision myself not to put my seatbelt on.
Of course, that's nothing compared to the constant information when the windshield wiper fluid is low. It bongs at me when I start the car, and then it leaves the exclamation point on the entire time I drive, just to keep me aware that something is DREADFULLY WRONG!
The biggest problem with this is that I've learned to ignore my car's constant bitching at me to my own detriment. I'm so used to it bonging at me and giving me exclamation points, that I'll forget that it's trying to tell me something important, like putting gas in it. I think it's a little like having a nagging wife, although I wouldn't know because I actually am usually the nagging wife.
But then all of the sudden I noticed a very small little light that I had to look up in the manual. Engine light was on. What could that mean? The manual wasn't very specific. I called Porsche. They said not to worry unless it stayed on a while or started blinking. After it had been on a couple of days, I made the appointment. It turned out to be a vent line that was cracked. I don't know because I'm not a mechanic, but I'm thinking that a vent line is perhaps a little more important than the wiper fluid being low, but all I got from the car was a little light that I couldn't even see in the sunlight. It's possible it bonged at me when I started the car and left the little exclamation point on, but I wouldn't know because I've becomed accustomed to just ignoring these things.
If the car bitches and bitches at me when it needs wiper fluid, then when the vent line is cracked, perhaps it could reach out and hit me over the head when I start the car?
