Needed: A Keeper
I'm not a fond user of cruise control. Though the people behind me on the freeway may wish I use it so I keep a steady pace, I like being in constant control.
However, there have been a couple times on the way Tucson that I've thought I should use it just to keep myself under 80. The road is soooooo straight that, unless you get behind a semi trying to pass another semi that's going 1/2 mile an hour slower than the first, it's easy to lose sight of how fast you're going. Every once in a while during my many journeys, I would hold in the button to set my speed but it never took.
I figured I was doing something wrong and never looked it up in the manual. It also occurred to me that maybe it didn't work at all and I needed to get it fixed but I've got no time for car repairs (or oil changes, or washes...).
This morning, I was getting back into my car after filling up the tank. I happened to look down on the left side of the dash and saw a few buttons. One said "Cruise". It had a light that was off. I pushed it in and the light came on.
My first thought was, "So, this is why it didn't work."
My second thought was, "How frakking stupid am I that I've never noticed this button and I've owned my car nearly four years?"
Sigh.
It's hard, even for me, to believe that I actually hold down a job where I have the power to bring down the entire business with one bad command and I'm actually considered good at it.
However, there have been a couple times on the way Tucson that I've thought I should use it just to keep myself under 80. The road is soooooo straight that, unless you get behind a semi trying to pass another semi that's going 1/2 mile an hour slower than the first, it's easy to lose sight of how fast you're going. Every once in a while during my many journeys, I would hold in the button to set my speed but it never took.
I figured I was doing something wrong and never looked it up in the manual. It also occurred to me that maybe it didn't work at all and I needed to get it fixed but I've got no time for car repairs (or oil changes, or washes...).
This morning, I was getting back into my car after filling up the tank. I happened to look down on the left side of the dash and saw a few buttons. One said "Cruise". It had a light that was off. I pushed it in and the light came on.
My first thought was, "So, this is why it didn't work."
My second thought was, "How frakking stupid am I that I've never noticed this button and I've owned my car nearly four years?"
Sigh.
It's hard, even for me, to believe that I actually hold down a job where I have the power to bring down the entire business with one bad command and I'm actually considered good at it.
