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I've been spending too much time on PriusChat!

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by qbee42, May 9, 2007.

  1. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    I had an awful dream this morning: We had been at dinner with friends, and we were leaving to go to a show. There were several of us, so we were taking more than one car. When I got to our Prius, which was parked way back in a dark part of the lot, the hood was open. I remember thinking "I don't remember leaving the hood open?!?" I walked around front and looked in, and the only thing inside was the engine block. Someone had ripped off every piece that could be taken, everything. The rest of the dream involved the usual stress dream problems of nothing working. I called the police on my cell phone and got a recording, I went into the mall (now there was a mall where we had been eating) and got stuck with a pimply faced security guard. I knew I was going to have to get the car towed, and I didn't know how I was going to get to the show. I was also stressing about how well it could be fixed and telling myself it's only a car - they can fix it. Boy, I was happy to wake up. I feel like I need to to out and look under the hood just to make sure everything is still there!

    Tom
     
    #1 qbee42, May 9, 2007
  2. jimmyrose

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    Tom,

    How do you know THAT was the dream and THIS isn't? Ooh, spooky.... :p
     
    #2 jimmyrose, May 9, 2007
  3. Proco

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    Funny you should mention Prius dreams. I had one a couple nights ago. I went out to the car in the morning to go to work, and as I was driving along, I noticed that that battery was at 1 pink bar. And it just wouldn't recharge. Of course it never occurred to me that there might actually be something wrong with the car. All I could think was "Great. The ICE is going to continue running and just kill my mileage."

    I hope everything is still under your car's hood. :D
     
    #3 Proco, May 9, 2007
  4. larkinmj

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    Perhaps you should sleep in your car to deter potential thieves!
     
    #4 larkinmj, May 9, 2007
  5. Tom6850

    Tom6850 Retired

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    Sounds more like a nightmare.
     
    #5 Tom6850, May 9, 2007
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    At least it wasn't a wet prius dream (you know being on a boat and all)
     
    #6 priussoris, May 9, 2007
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    Put it in the garage at night and you will feel more secure about "Your Baby"... I do.
     
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  8. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(inventor00 @ May 9 2007, 11:45 AM) [snapback]438267[/snapback]</div>
    I do, and I do feel safer, although in this neighborhood the garage is mostly to keep it out of the weather and sap dripping off the trees. I think I'll go out and give the ol' Prius a pat on the spoiler just to feel better. :)

    Tom


    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(priussoris @ May 9 2007, 11:22 AM) [snapback]438249[/snapback]</div>
    Wet dreams on boats are not a good thing. :unsure: One standard trick on wooden boats is to sleep on board the first night after launching, just to watch for leaks. If you dangle an arm over the side of the berth, there is a good chance you will wake up before the water gets too deep. :blink:

    Tom
     
    #8 qbee42, May 9, 2007
  9. jiepsie

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    My MFD quit on me yesterday. This morning, I was hoping it was only a bad dream, but it wasn't...
     
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  10. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lowlander @ May 9 2007, 12:25 PM) [snapback]438299[/snapback]</div>
    Bummer. I hate to hear about things like that. Hope the fix isn't too costly.

    Completely off topic, but I was just walking up from the marina, and I saw a gen 1 Prius parked outside the post office - right here in little ol' Northport! How cool is that!

    Tom
     
    #10 qbee42, May 9, 2007
  11. Gringa

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    I know what you mean, Tom. I too had a weird Prius dream. I'd had my new Prius for about 3-4 weeks and realized that I hadn't been out driving at night in it. I guess since I had been thinking about that and about where the light switch is etc, that I dreamt that while out driving at night I had turned on the lights and finding that my entire windshield had turned into a MFD and that I couldn't see where I was going! I can remember thinking "this will never do, I can't see well enought to drive this car at night! " Thank goodness I then woke up! :blink:
     
    #11 Gringa, May 23, 2007
  12. qbee42

    qbee42 My other car is a boat

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gringa @ May 23 2007, 08:20 PM) [snapback]448596[/snapback]</div>
    A large screen MFD! That could be a great idea. Toyota could add a front facing camera so you could still see where you were going. :lol:

    Tom
     
    #12 qbee42, May 23, 2007
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