Oh dear...confession time.....it will come as no surprise that I can be a silly old woman....but this week has been a corker.
So I return to the car...which has spent a couple of days being "mended" in the garage this week. It came home on Friday. I paid the bill and was just glad to have it back so yesterday I celebrated by taking it out to visit an old friend in the next village. We didn’t get far.
At the same spot as last time it started again. Lights warned, hooting assailed me...I turned her round and brought her home full of angst....the garage hadn’t fixed it it all!
I rang them but of course it was Saturday. No one was going to come out. Very cross I tried again...it was still protesting. . So again I rang the number for road side help.
The girl in the office was excellent. . She even managed some sympathy. During the conversation she told me that what I was tellng her sounded like what happens when you are not wearing your seat belt! I replied that I always wore a seat belt!
And then tried again. The same warning light and sound came on and this time I looked more closely. It was a red picture of a person. Not wearing a seat belt!
Oh dear....or similar words. I had of course been wearing a seat belt but decided to try to tighten everything up! That did the trick. Warning lights stopped flashing....as did the hooting! So now I’m feeling very foolish....
I always do wear a seat belt of course but I’d obviously got sloppy in fastening it up. So the two hundred pounds I paid to get my car sorted out was my penance....but the real penance is the knowledge of my own daftness.
"Oh woman, they name is frailty!" Or in my case, stupidity! Confession over. For now....
2 comments:
We have found that putting the lightest object on a seat signals the seatbelt warning symbol and noise so we now have all the seat belts fastened even if no one is sitting in the seat. DH sometimes has a large toy elephant strapped in. After 4 or 5 years of owning our car we still don’t know what all the dashboard symbols mean, my 23 year old Corsa’s controls are so much easier and basic, although I would appreciate some power steering everything else is manual.
Oh dear!!
I get similar warnings, despite my seatbelt being securely fixed, unfortunately, I have a habit of putting it into the passenger receptacle rather than the right one.
So, I join you in the "Oh Dear" category, and I am not in the "very mature" category, albeit I have passed the three score and ten target.
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