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Friday, May 11, 2012

It's Buick Time

As much as Steve and I don't want to admit it, it's Buick time.  As we've been told by our frinds in Florida, "old people drive Buicks" and the Champagne color I selected is an "old person color".  Funny thing, the person who told us this is older than us. 

I really like my Enclave however it is huge.  I know that one day Steve will hear the crash in the garage and it will be me after I run the car into the freezer.  I think we're going to have to get a hanging tennis ball that hits the windshield so I know when to stop.  I'm certain that this car would never fit into the garage at our house in The Villages. 

I'm sure we all know what the word complex means and how technilogically challenged I can be, well, this care is like driving a computer.  It has this touch screen navigation-radio, do everything for you computer.  Steve and I played with it and thought we had it figured out.  The next day when I was going to work the lady who lives in the dash (we call her Evelyn) started talking to me.  "Follow the highlighted route and the navigation will begin".  I thought, how nice, it's going to help me find the office.  When I looked further, she was taking me to Florida which would not have been a bad thing.  This thing even gives us live traffic and weather reports.  Go figure. 

I was proud of myself today.  I had to go and find a house that was located on Wishing Well Lane in Fort.  I had no clue where that was.  I had done some preliminary research on the house and then headed out to find it.  "Evelyn" took me right to the house without a problem.  The issue arose when I wanted her to shut the hell up again.  I finally stopped at McDonals in Fort Atkinson and figured out how to shut her up. 

What's so scary to me is that I can start the car from my cell phone.  I could be in Florida and unlock the car 1200 miles away.  I can start it, check the fuel, tires, mpg, you name it and all from my cell phone.  A person has to wonder what they will think of next.  I think it's going to take some time to get used to this and most likely replace the freezer that sits in front of my car.

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