#52 - Flying in my car

As I was preparing to leave yesterday morning, putting all my items in the car and almost ready, I had to run back in to get 1 more thing.  Just as I started to exit the house again Mother Nature decided to open up and let her voice be heard.  You guessed it, it was pouring.  I locked the house and asked real quick, 'can you stop pouring for 30 seconds so I can get into my car without being soaked?'

Apparently she heard me because I had a brief window in which to get into the car.  As I shut the door, all hell broke loose again.  I got lucky, so I thought.  Now I had to drive in this.  Not a quick jaunt to the store, but almost 3 hours to a meeting.  I got this, no problem I thought to myself and off I went.  Little did I know.

A handful of miles down the road and my car decided it was not happy with the current dashboard display and wanted to add more color.  I am at this point intensely paying close attention to the road, hands tightly gripping the steering wheel so tightly my knuckles on each hand were almost white.  A glowing light resembling an upside-down horseshoe with a serrated bottom appeared right next to a yellow box with a little 'i' inside.  Oh joy...I know this one.  One of my tires is low.  Well, I am going to just have to cross my fingers and hope that it's not too low because there is not a thing I can do with it in the middle of nowhere Kansas on a highway that appears to be flooding in front of my eyes.  Think positive, will it to stay up, that's what I will do.

I had planned to listen to another one of my audio books but due to the rain that just seemed to be more like someone opened a hose the size of a semi right in front of my car, I needed to concentrate on driving and would probably not even hear the words being read to me.  So I turned on the tunes an began singing to myself.  Luckily the phone rang.  My friend saved my sanity for a little bit.

Talked for a little while and then realized that the rain was steadily getting even worse.  Now, not only did it seem like a semi-sized hose was spewing rainwater at my car but it seemed to be flooding the roads and my tiny little car was now becoming more hovercraft than car.  To top that off, my car decided once again that the dash needed more color.  This time, however, it wanted to be amusing and make the next one blink on then off at random intervals.  As it did this I noticed that my car appeared to be more hovering than rolling along on the tires.  You guessed it.  My new blinking light was a car with a slight twist and squiggly lines below it.  I'm essentially flying, just great.

This went on for almost 30 minutes, getting worse then settling a bit.  My little car doing all it could to stay down on the road as I kept going.  Having to drop my speeds down, at some points to under half the speed limit and still struggling.  Holy hell had opened up on the road in front of me and all I kept asking myself was, 'do I really need to go to this meeting?'  I can't even remember how many times I kept thinking, 'there's an exit ramp...get off and turn around and go home.  This is insane.'.  But I kept going, finally getting past the worst of it.  

Once again I realized just how much I truly LOVE my car.  This is the second one I have had and I am a believer...these adorable little Subaru Outbacks really are life savers.  I didn't wreck, partially because of my driving abilities, partially because I was paying attention and not doing stupid crap while driving, and the rest I will give to my Subaru for being an amazing little car with safety features that really do what they are supposed to do.  My first was in 2 accidents with very, VERY large deer causing thousands in damage yet I never felt a thing, except the ding to my wallet when it came time to the deductible.  My car did it's job.  Got me and my passengers from point A to B safely, comfortably, and without worry.  I even got more in trade-in than I owed...after 2 accidents!!!

I will forever be a Subaru owner.  I can now add wings to the stickers on my car as it has now flown and successfully landed. 

NOTE:  I am not getting paid for this, this is not an advertisement, however if Subaru would like to they may, I would gladly accept and put it towards my next Subaru.  LOL