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My old-man Car Notebook thing, I was talking about before– I took some pictures of it as I was putting it away (I’d had it in my purse to write down notes about the maintenance I just had done).
I have a nagging feeling I’ve posted about this before so if so, I beg your indulgence, it’s hard when the mind goes.
Do other people do this with cars, or is it just my family? I went slightly above and beyond what I was raised doing, since this was my first very-own new car, and I copied out the maintenance intervals into the back cover so I’d have a reference of what the car needed. On the inside front cover, I wrote down things like the recommended tire pressure, because I always forget and it’s a pain to look it up every time.
NB the most important feature of the book: the pen, a decent one that won’t explode if frozen, is tied to the book and stays with it always and cannot be removed. (I hand-braided that tether, I tell you what.)
And since the notebook was wide, I added a column to write down where I was when I got the gas, which helps me keep track of how much traveling I do and how much more gas costs out west than back east.
Mostly, though, I like it because it makes me feel better about driving around so much.
Look how terrible my handwriting is…
In that one, I wrote down two instances where I didn’t fill the tank, but rather had to get a dollar amount because I had no credit card. That explains why I got so few miles before the next tank.
Also, I was raised on cars with faulty fuel gauges, so I reset the trip odometer every time I get gas, and then I know how many miles I’ve been on this tank, so if it still says half-full, I know that’s got to be bullshit. However, that doesn’t work if your trip odometer didn’t get reset, so. I hate when other people get gas in my car, for this reason, because if that thing’s up over 400 I’m lowkey constantly freaking out even if I know, somewhere deep down, that the fuel gauge works in this car and it would tell me if it was low. (There’s even a button that tells you how many more miles you can probably go on this tank, and it’s pretty close to reasonable, but I don’t *believe* it in my heart.)
Funny what sensors I’ll believe and which I won’t…
I’m on my third attempt posting this, so we’ll see. I have a suspicion it’s the tag art that’s keeping it from posting, but I don’t know.
My old-man Car Notebook thing, I was talking about before– I took some pictures of it as I was putting it away (I’d had it in my purse to write down notes about the maintenance I just had done).
I have a nagging feeling I’ve posted about this before so if so, I beg your indulgence, it’s hard when the mind goes.
Do other people do this with cars, or is it just my family? I went slightly above and beyond what I was raised doing, since this was my first very-own new car, and I copied out the maintenance intervals into the back cover so I’d have a reference of what the car needed. On the inside front cover, I wrote down things like the recommended tire pressure, because I always forget and it’s a pain to look it up every time.
NB the most important feature of the book: the pen, a decent one that won’t explode if frozen, is tied to the book and stays with it always and cannot be removed. (I hand-braided that tether, I tell you what.)
And since the notebook was wide, I added a column to write down where I was when I got the gas, which helps me keep track of how much traveling I do and how much more gas costs out west than back east.
Mostly, though, I like it because it makes me feel better about driving around so much.
Look how terrible my handwriting is…
In that one, I wrote down two instances where I didn’t fill the tank, but rather had to get a dollar amount because I had no credit card. That explains why I got so few miles before the next tank.
Also, I was raised on cars with faulty fuel gauges, so I reset the trip odometer every time I get gas, and then I know how many miles I’ve been on this tank, so if it still says half-full, I know that’s got to be bullshit. However, that doesn’t work if your trip odometer didn’t get reset, so. I hate when other people get gas in my car, for this reason, because if that thing’s up over 400 I’m lowkey constantly freaking out even if I know, somewhere deep down, that the fuel gauge works in this car and it would tell me if it was low. (There’s even a button that tells you how many more miles you can probably go on this tank, and it’s pretty close to reasonable, but I don’t *believe* it in my heart.)
Funny what sensors I’ll believe and which I won’t…
I’m on my third attempt posting this, so we’ll see. I have a suspicion it’s the tag art that’s keeping it from posting, but I don’t know.
