Sunroof

So my “new” not new but still new enough to me new car, a 2013 Nissan Juke, has a few bells and whistles that BB, my pretty recently totaled 2008 Toyota Scion XB, didn’t have though it does share a few old tootles with BB that I was lucky enough to come across, quite by accident, in my initial online car search, when I was forced to get this new ride via this whole BB getting totaled thing I just mentioned replete with local police, eventual litany of insurance agents and an exasperated question to the other driver if she had actually considered looking and signaling before trying to cross over my lane with the sudden need to somehow be somewhere else? The answer was non-committal and maddeningly blasé, no different surely than her seeing the empty donut box in her office’s kitchen, realizing she was donut late again and saying “well gosh darnitt”.

The share and the not easy to come across and something that made the transition easier with some equal Steve comforts? They were/are both stick shifts and both had/have CD players as I am old and like to listen to music in the car on my many burned CD’s specifically burned for car driving from the digital downloads of the very few new albums I may buy, but mostly from my old 80’s and 90’s stuff so I don’t use the original discs.

“Really?”

“Hey, they could become collector’s items!”

“No, they couldn’t”

“Shut up!”

Now I’m sure that there is a way with this “new” not new but still new enough to me new car (who I have named “Lilly” by the way, with an extra “L” just because I can, in case you were curious which you surely aren’t after rolling your eyes) to play music through some sort of fancy system that could possibly involve USB’s or other such things and devices with music stored on them that might involve shuffle mode (I hate shuffle mode) but that would definitely require me to load them with tunes which I am never going to take the time to do that I could then plug into a port or something somewhere that I will never look for and, when there comes a day where I might have need for another “new” not new but still new enough to me new vehicle that could be slightly more upgraded again and again have a few more bells and whistles and have me write a similar post, just in the future, I will be more than comfortable knowing that I never found a port, though never looking for it in the first place will play a huge part in that.

Anyway, a couple of the few “new bells and whistles” I have discovered so far in these few months with Lilly and, before you ask, no, I did not and have not pored over all that Lilly might have to offer to me in the way of “new” as it’s a heck of a lot more fun to just be surprised by stuff along the way just as I was when I accidentally hit a little “phone” button on the steering wheel only to have the car suddenly talk to me like Kit from Knight Rider just a bit more mundane and lacking that TV show’s chasing or being chased by the bad guys, Hasselhoff excitement.

That’s when I realized well hell!!, could I actually have a hands-free phone after getting all high blue tooth techie and syncing my cell to Lilly and talk out loud inside the car instead of just waiting for when my phone, on speaker, slides off my lap and in between the seats forcing me to say m’f’er a couple of times and then pull over to search for it?

Well, now that is too freakin’ cool, welcome to the 21st century Frankenberry though for my sister Beck this “cool” wore off rather quickly after the initial call.

“What now Steve? (sigh)”

“Just calling to say Hi”

“Wait, let me guess, from inside the car … again?”

“Yeah, how cool is this?”

“Do you actually have anything relevant to talk to me about this time?”

“No”

“Bye brother”

“Bye, love ya too!”

Ok, so I’m a bit behind the times but Beck is always a real trooper and is champeen good at humoring me (sooooo many years of Steve practice … poor girl).

Another thing I discovered in the process of new bell and whistling was that Lilly has a sunroof, something I literally did not even notice was there for the for first month or so, though I’m sure it was mentioned to me as a selling point sometime early on in the car buying process along with “it has four wheels” but …

… but then, earlier tonight on my way home and on one of the first real thing Spring is almost here post work drives, with some late afternoon sun and newly opened windows in full, with a CD rockin’, I thought to open said sunroof … well only after pulling into a grocery store parking lot to put on my “close” (reading) glasses after swapping out my “far” (driving) glasses (I mentioned I’m old right?) to actually be able to see how the sunroof and it’s sunroof button worked.

But then, after do-si-do-ing back to my driving glasses, I was on my way again on one of the first real thing Spring is almost here post work drives and it was glorious, as Lilly and I continue to enjoy getting to know each other in an every day is a new day surprise in some late afternoon almost Spring sun and rockin’ CD new breeze sort of way.