Is this light a bad thing?
I am not a car person.
As in know-what’s-going-on-under-the-hood person.
This light has been on in my car for about six weeks now. It came on at some point in all the driving back and forth to see my ill father.
At first I panicked. Driving on a major interstate still four hours from home, my eyes drawn to its insistent glowing.
SOMETHING’S WRONG, SOMETHINGS WRONG, SOMETHING’S WRONG.
You are going to break down on the side of the road and never see your children AGAIN glowing.
Well, nothing went wrong.
And my urgent “got to take it into the shop the next day” become — as long as it’s still running. I’ll keep driving.
Right now I could draw sappy conclusions to how that is with us. Our bodies. Pushing them onward, ignoring all the warning signs because the still function.
We still get the children to school on time. Remember the dentist appointments and soccer games. We’re at our desk by 8:29:30 a.m. and make it to the store every night to buy something for dinner.
The little irritations with our spouse that turn into I can’t live this way emotional chasms. The child who pulls away because that’s what teens do and then they start staying out later and later and you sleep with the phone resting by your ear all night long.
No. I won’t type those things because that is obviously tired and cliched writing.
Even though I think it.
Sometimes.
Hardly ever.
Only when I’m feeling tired and cliched, I guess.
Do you ever ignore, those bitty warning lights?
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I have one in my car I’m ignoring right now – but it just says Service Engine Soon. It’s said that for about 2 months. I’m not sure when soon will arrive.
And I don’t want to think about the other “warning lights” I tend to ignore in life. Bleh.
All.The.Time.
Thanks for posting about this! I have been ignoring something for a very long time and I think I will take care of it now 😉
Um yes. To answer shortly. Yep. I like to think of it as keeping my head above water–though that’s pretty cliched too! We go and we go and we go because we must. Or, we think we must. Tune ups are a good thing every once in awhile 🙂 I actually have a light on in my car too! But I’m living with it for the time being. One day soon though…I’ll be pulling out my wallet and fixing things up!
As for the car – my husband looks after that 😉 (but I know that your symbol means something “waterpump”).
As for ignoring signs: I may have actually invented that. Pushing past what you know is good for you.
As I’m getting older, I can feel it even more.
I need to take better care of myself, yet I always have this restless feeling…
(We’ll be in Vegas March 20-30)
My dad lives really close by and maintains my car. We joke that it’s not a car in our family if the check engine light ISN”T on. So yes, I do a lot of ignoring. 😀
My husband checks those (a mechanic – holla!). It’s usually less serious than you think, and there are about 178 different things that can set it off.
I hope you feel better – and try to get the light checked. 🙂
You mean that warning light about my low tires needs me to DO something… Oh, crap.
As to the other – I think in my family we call that “polite avoidance”… We’re realllly good at it 😉
I keep getting one about the air pressure in my tires. But hubby says it’s just due to the temperature (cold!) change. I hope he’s right!
My husband is a mechanic, and he would go CRAZY if that light came on and I didn’t tell him! Although I did drive for a week with the tire light on, turns out it had a screw in it. In my defense when it gets super cold out that light comes on anyways