You have been driving your Prius too much

Haha..That was pretty funny. I have a security door here at work too but have yet to do that lol.

 

... when you can't figure out how to start other cars. (Key? you need to put a key in somewhere?)

 

For the first week after I brought home my Prius (and sometimes even now, several months later), I got really pissed off at my house door for not unlocking itself when I got home. Stand at the front door, fishing keys out of my pocket, grumbling.

And then there's the fact that nobody -- not even the sharp-eared parrot -- hears me drive up anymore, so I don't get my customary Welcome Home greetings. Nobody cares anymore, sigh....

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Grandma Judy @ Aug 29 2007, 10:37 AM) [snapback]503783[/snapback]</div>

Mine was when I parked Sweetie's car and then went looking for the Power button to turn it off. There were several seconds of "I know I'm supposed to do something but what?".

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Doc Willie @ Aug 29 2007, 03:34 PM) [snapback]503908[/snapback]</div>

ooooohhh I've done that one and kicked my self at the next red light!!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(redhawk @ Aug 29 2007, 11:57 AM) [snapback]503793[/snapback]</div>

casper (16 mo old senegal parrot) hears the lock beep i guess, by the time i get to within 4 feet of the door i hear that little contact call.

me, i kept reaching for the park button in the rental car.

 

At first, I kept bumping into my apartment door, expecting it to unlock when I touched the doorknob. Now, 3 1/2 years later, my primary car is the Zap Xebra, and I keep forgetting that I have to take the key out of my pocket and put it in the slot and turn it. At least, with the Xebra, there's no engine to start, ever.

 

My lucky husband, who gets to drive the Menace, now remarks at how "barbaric" it is to have to actually stick the key in the ignition in my car.

He's got a point, but I remind him that my driver's seat automatically adjusts to me when I get in, and the Pri seat doesn't. I guess that makes us even, at least for now.

I haven't stood at the door to my office waiting for the door to unlock and open without me using my security badge, yet- but I'm blonde, so I'm sure that will come at some time.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Aug 29 2007, 06:19 PM) [snapback]504044[/snapback]</div>

When I first got the Prius it was the door at work for me. I must have smacked into it every morning for a week expecting it to unlock when I touched the handle.

And, when I keep hitting the dash of a regular car expecting to find a Power button (last Christmas my mom asked me, "What are you doing?" as I kept hitting the dash. I turned to her and said, "Oh, I have to use a key?!), and then when I stop the car, I press the dash for the Park button. Oooohhh, how I hate to drive regular cars! I need to psych myself up for driving one this weekend.

 

You know you've been spending too much time on PriusChat when...

...you sign on to the computer at work with your PC user name and password.

 

When you get in your other car (other than a Prius) and sit for a second or two, thinking what you should be doing next....ahhhh yes....put the key in and TURN it.

 

I drive a conventional car for work so and don't have the SKS. However I forgot to put my helmet on before my gloves this morning when I went to ride my motorbike to work for a change. I hardly ever ride it now, the car is cheaper to run!!! (it did feel good on the bike but not in the same way as the Prius feels good.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(gilahiker @ Aug 29 2007, 08:47 PM) [snapback]504146[/snapback]</div>

Me too! Only, for me, the Prius has become a "regular" car because it burns gasoline. Conventional gas cars annoy me because they continue to run the engine at stoplights. The Prius annoys me now because it runs the gas engine (most of the time) when it's moving. A sensible car would not run the engine at all, unless you had to drive more than 50 or 60 miles! (The Xebra, being a baby electric car, only goes 45 miles, but 27 days out of 30 that's enough.) There's no longer any excuse for cars to burn gas for around-town driving.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ Aug 30 2007, 06:28 AM) [snapback]504255[/snapback]</div>

I sure wish I could afford one to do my short errands! They're killing my mileage, especially since we've had such horrible weather lately and the AC is ALWAYS on!!!

 

....when you start looking up topics, rather than just seeing what people are yacking about.

 

...when you pat the roof of the car a couple of times, or stroke it like a cat, hoping people will be foolish enough to think that unlocks the car.

 

I did it yesterday!!! I drove my work car a few hundred metres then poked my finger at the dash and got all confused when nothing happened!!

I was distracted by a shiny red Ford Focus Diesel the fleet guys were checking out. I was distracted by the styling cues it took from the Prius.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Grandma Judy @ Aug 29 2007, 07:37 AM) [snapback]503783[/snapback]</div>

I kinda had this happen today. I took my wife's Camry (non-hybrid) over to the carwash, and when I got in, I was pushing on the brakes and looking for the power button. Once I realized: Oh, yeah, insert the key and turn it!, I then was reaching for the emergency brake pedal (nonexistent on the Camry; it's a lever on the center console) and reaching for the shift lever on the dash (again nonexistent, of course) before finding it on the center console.

Once I was driving, everything felt wrong: the gas was too twitchy and the brake pedal travel more than I expected at first. Darn those nonregenerative brakes!

A few more years in the Prius and I'll not remember how to drive a normal car ever again. I think I have to buy my wife a Prius just so I can take care of her car more easily!