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What men notice - and don't notice
OK, so today I learned a little something more about men vs women.
My van was in the shop yesterday having the a/c fixed, an all-day repair since they had to pull off the dash to get to the busted part. So, I drop off my hubby at the end of the day, as we're hoping that it will be ready before they close for the day. Anywho, he calls me to let me know he's got the van and is on his way home. So I pick up dinner, and arrive home later. He tells me the only problem he sees is that the radio is canted back farther on one side than the other, but I may not even mind. So I figure, yay! No obvious rattles, scratches or scrapes, so this is good, right?
Fast forward to this morning. I get in the van and look at the radio. Yup, I see that it is a bit crooked, but nothing I'm going to raise heck about, so I back out of the driveway. Well, before I get down the 25 yards of my street, I notice something a bit more significant than the radio being a bit crooked.
Anyone care to guess...Anyone?
My speedometer is not working, the needle is on the wrong side of the little stopper, so I have no clue how fast I am going. And he drove like this for about 15 miles without noticing! I knew he wasn't much for using the mirrors, but the speedometer? The tachometer was the same way, but unless you're a race car driver (in a minvan!), it's not nearly as essential as the speedometer.
On the bright side, I figured I had a really good reason for speeding if I happened to be pulled over!
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Jun 27, 2008 9:20 AM
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Oh no! Well, maybe he was just tired and worn out from the heat. And driving in traffic! Who notices the speedometer when you're driving in traffic? You know you can't possibly be speeding! 
Hope you can take it back and get it fixed ASAP. My brother's car had that problem with the speedometer (it used to stick) so we thought the same thing, that we wouldn't get tickets. NOT TRUE! In fact, if you're really unlucky, you might get two tickets--one for speeding and one for driving a car that is not road-ready (or something like that).
Good luck!
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Jun 27, 2008 10:01 AM
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Yikes! Hadn't thought about the not road-ready aspect.
And yes, they had it fixed in about half an hour this morning. But it was definitely not how I wanted to spend my morning.
And even in traffic, I do check to see how fast I'm going, and he was running the a/c, so shouldn't have been overheated. I can't wait until tonight to ask him how he missed it! I'm half tempted to call him, but I just have to see his face when I tell him.
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Jun 27, 2008 10:14 AM
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I'm glad you got it fixed!! I can't stand to look at the speedometer when I'm in traffic--it just makes me depressed!
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Jun 27, 2008 10:19 AM
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My guess is that he was very anxious to get home to his loving wife, so he got a bit carried away with the speed, and the needle of the speedometer got wrapped around the wrong way. That would be the story I would tell..... and I would stick to it!
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Jun 27, 2008 11:52 AM
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Ranger-yeah, except I wasn't home at the time.
Hmmmm....
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Jun 27, 2008 12:04 PM
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You know, once in my wild and crazy youth, and when I had to use Dad's car, a friend and I somehow managed to disconnect the speedometer of his car since we planned to skip school and didn't want him to see extra miles on the car. We drove out of town and visited someone then headed for home. Everything was fine until we tried to reconnect the speedometer. We couldn't get it back. I had to go to a filling station and told the attendant I had accidently caught my foot in a wire or something and now my speedometer did not work. Yeah, right. He didn't buy it either, he knew exactly what I had done. He did connect it for me but I had to listen to a lecture about how it was illegal to do that and putting miles on a car and not having them show was a federal offense. (He said) I could go to prison for like 5 years. I begin to sweat. I NEVER did it again.
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Jun 27, 2008 12:15 PM
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They have speedometers?
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Jun 27, 2008 12:29 PM
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John-only if you care to know how fast you're going! Apparently my hubby doesn't use one either!
cush-that's the odometer, which I can do without (though it does help me decide if I can get to the gas station in time)
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Jun 27, 2008 12:37 PM
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I figure if I ain't hitting anything, I'm good. 
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Jun 27, 2008 12:42 PM
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and if you hit something, go faster?
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Jun 27, 2008 1:03 PM
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That is just weird and poor workmanship! And dangerous too. Go kick em in the butt.
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Jun 27, 2008 1:18 PM
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Kris - you are right. It was the odometer but the speedometer did not work when we disconnected the odometer. That was the point in disconnecting it, So the miles would not show. Man, and I work for a truck dealership and in the parts dept. I should have known odometer, not speedometer.
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Jun 27, 2008 1:20 PM
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cush-didn't know that the speedometer might not work if the odometer is disconnected. You can learn something new every day!
Cindy-I did! They had it fixed in about 30 minutes. They guessed that when they had it out of the dash that they set it down in such a way that the needles were able to flip around, and didn't right themselves when they put it back in. They also tried to blame the lack of a thorough check out on the fact that my hubby was there waiting! That he was waiting was true, I highly doubt that he was acting in such a way to make them rush anything. It's more likely that it was getting close to the end of their day so he rushed just a bit and didn't notice it when driving it around to the front.
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Jun 27, 2008 1:28 PM
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OMG how funny! Good to know it isn't just my ex that is oblivious to important things! hahaha
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Jun 27, 2008 2:03 PM
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