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Having to leave town yesterday afternoon for a couple of days in Kearney at a teacher’s meeting, I was lucky enough to get to drive the school’s new 2006 Suburban. Before I even got out on the highway, I was checking out all the cool features it had. I found you could change the radio station and adjust the volume by pushing controls on the steering wheel. There are also buttons to push that will give you information about the tire pressure and condition of the motor oil! I tried out all the buttons just to see what they were. There was a button on the rear view mirror (next to the time and temperature) that said ON, so of course I tried it too. The next thing I knew the radio kicked off and I could hear a phone dialing. Soon the rear-view mirror was talking to me! “This is Onstar responding – what is your emergency?” Oops! I had to explain (to the mirror!) that this was my first time to drive the new school vehicle and I was guilty of pushing buttons just to see what would happen. (Who knew that pushing a button labeled ON would be akin to dialing 911?) The voice coming from the mirror chuckled and invited me to call back anytime I actually needed any kind of help in the future before wishing me a good day.

Well, it seems I wasn’t the only one having problems with vehicles yesterday. On my way out of town I had to stop at the gas station because the Suburban was nearly on empty. As I was filling the gas tank, I noticed an elderly woman trying to get the hose from the diesel pump into the gas tank on her car. I hollared over to her questioning if her car really took diesel. She said no so I told her she probably needed to use a different pump then!! Oops again! She thanked me about a dozen times as she hung the diesel hose back up and reached for the gasoline hose.