The grinding machine

Sometimes being a paranoid freak is a good thing.

It all started on Wednesday when I was driving around with my sister. As we were heading back near home, a warning symbol appeared on my dashboard. I freaked out because it was something that I have never seen before. I was like holy shit, that looks like a symbol for the engine!

Obviously, from my nervousness, I was driving in a panicky state. Before heading home, we stopped in a parking lot, I opened the manual for my Toyota and searched for meanings of warning symbols. I read it and it said something like, “flashing warning light symbol.” Due to my utter need to calm my self down and my lack of comprehension of the basics of the English language, I thought it meant, one of the brake lights stopped working.

I told my sister to get out of the car and check while I tested my lights.

She said, “They are all working!”

I took out the book again and read it with my brain a bit more focused. It had another symbol (*) to read more on another page. So I flipped to page 100+ and I found the true meaning of the symbol. It says, “Please take your car to your Toyota Dealer.”

I read that and I FREAKED OUT MORE! I said, “Oh my God! Something is wrong with my car!!” As I was driving home, I thought that my car was slowing down, oh no, it is shaking, omg, something is wrong! I CAN FEEL IT DAMMIT!

As I got home, I told my dad that something was wrong with my car, I am not driving it anymore. Get someone to take it to Toyota and see what is wrong! He said, “Ok!” Let’s go see what is wrong. So I turned on the car, and the symbol was still there. I said, “See see! Something is horribly wrong here with this car!”

He said, “Stop being so nervous. You will ruin your teeth. You keep grinding on them. I SEE YOU ALL THE TIME!” I said, “What? Since when?” I looked at my teeth later, and realized that maybe he is right. :S

Next morning, my dad tells me that he will drive behind me while I take the car to the dealership. He will drop me off at work, because they don’t open till 8am.

I turned the car on, and the symbol was gone! There were no warning symbols at all for anything. I screamed, “DAD! THE SYMBOL IS GONE!!” He said, “We will take it for inspection anyways, just come.”

Around 9:30am, my dad calls my cell phone while I was at work and told me, “The computer in the car was messed up. That’s why you see symbols that make no sense. They replaced it for you since your car is still under warranty.” I said, “I knew it!! That’s why I get random airbag not working warnings too!”

Isn’t it funny that me, the computer nerd, had issues with my car’s computer parts? Where is the justice!!

I still grind my teeth, and that’s why I have some chipped teeth, nervous as hell all the time, and white hair!

Oh, God bless that coffee!

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