when you get this message from your car
you have startle response
turn around very carefully
and see this
ah, just another pinata
clearly my car doesn’t know me well enough yet.
i was picturing one of those scary old tales
we used to terrorize each other with
it would be either a guy with a hook
or a pumpkin head with no body.
—
look out! behind you!
-ralph waldo emerson
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Be very afraid. 😳
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right!)
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Now I’m confused. Is that a real message from the car dashboard, or just a clever photoshop? 😕
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete, Newer cars have this warning and it’s triggered when you have opened one of the back doors, then driven the car. It won’t warn you if you haven’t opened the back door, though. It came about as a few people had forgotten loved ones or animals and left the car to return to find a tragedy… it can get scarily hot inside a car in the summer or even a sunny afternoon.
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Thanks for letting me know, Clay. I have a 2018 SUV with lots of electronic extras, but I have never seen a back seat warning message. 😊
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It might be only mandated in the US
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that’s very possible –
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now I’m ready –
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it’s a real message and new to me
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Wasn’t sure! I can imagine how scary it might have been on was the first time…
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right!)
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very real and something new to me –
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Oh and BTW, my son and his wife welcomed twin boys into the world early Thursday morning. I am going to ‘steal’ your term grandies! Thank you.
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Our first grandies and they are beautiful.
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❤️❤️
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LOL! Well, the pinata wasn’t wearing a seat belt, so I guess you have a very safety conscious car, Beth!
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this is true !)
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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ Walt Whitman
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good plan
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I have 2018 GMC and it first annoyed me, then I figured it out. Now it reminds me to take my stuff in to school, lest I have come back out to get it!
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it was new to me, and hence the scared reaction )
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Oh my goodness! Maybe it’s Halloween and scary movie season or election tension, but that dashboard message sent a shiver when I read it! Whoa! 😜
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Exactly! Luckily, I was alone in my car at the time or my overreaction would’ve been really embarrassing)
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🥰😜🥰
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I am kinda glad that my car doesn’t send me that particular message.
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It freaked me out
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Lol :P funny Beth!
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🎉❤️😹
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I worry when machines talk to me. The AI is listening…
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It was just this particular message that caught me off guard )
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HILARIOUS. Pinatas are to some what clowns are to others, and not in a good way!
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So funny and true I’ve had so many piñatas in my car over the years because I love to use them for celebration and always have one in the trunk or somewhere, but I also I absolutely loathe and fear clowns
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I’ve never seen a message like that in a car! And I’m relieved just a piñata is in the back seat :)
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I just bought a new to me car and so it has all sorts of new lights and messages and this is one I’ve never seen before
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There used to be a story about a woman who returned to her car in a car park to find an old lady in the back seat who asked if she could take her home. The driver asked if she could kindly help to see her safely out of the parking space. The old lady got out of the car and obliged and the driver just simply drove away. When she got home she found an axe under the seat. I think it was a made up story but always good to tell around Halloween time.
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Yes! We love to terrify ourselves with these!
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I remember a few years ago when they’d broadcast the “warnings” to shoppers on the radio at work to check and make sure they didn’t leave their kid or their dog in the car. I wondered “Who does that?” I mean, actually forget they left a kid or dog in the car. When it’s done, I’m pretty sure when it happens it’s almost always intentional… then again, I don’t have either child nor dog so I don’t know.
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The other thing most humans don’t do is look up.
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This is so true and I’ve been making a conscious effort to practice this more
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I have a story about how I learned it. I’d read it before, but really learned it’s true. I think looking up is a viable survival skill.
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stare your story if you will )
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There’s a climbing move to take you up a narrow chimney, your feet on one side and your back on the other. We were playing music and on a break I went up a narrow brick hallway and stayed up near the ceiling…probably about 15 feet up. It takes very little effort to stay up there comfortably. Maybe 20 people walked under me and not one of them saw me. Nobody looked up. Obviously, I’ve never forgotten it.
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wow!
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lol 😂
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Glad no one was in Amy car with me at the time my overreaction would’ve been embarrassing)
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Aww, a cute prank
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Just my piñata so I guess I pranked myself )
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😂😅
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Very cute!
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Thanks, Dawn
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Terrifying message!!! Adorable ending.
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Yes and thanks!
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That’s a pretty sophisticated car! And I would also be terrified to receive such a message. Thankfully it’s just a piñata! 😆
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I had no idea it would do this as it is new to me, and I’m used to all of its ‘quirks’ yet ).
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I discovered my new car could change my radio station when it scared me by saying it couldn’t hear me and asked me to repeat my selection.
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wow, are you sure there was not a small person in your backseat talking?
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Now that you mention it, that should have been my first thought!
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I’d heard about such warnings, but this week would be an unfortunate time to find out you have one!
Ah, the guy with the hook. I’d forgotten about him. Haven’t heard that story in decades.
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right!
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must be that time of the year again; I’ll be on watch :)
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right!
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You made me laugh. Laughter is good, especially right now.
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so very important
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Just reading your words made the hair on the back of my neck stand up!
Remember seeing it on the screen of a car I was test driving and thinking to myself, (nothing out loud) ‘It’s the salesman, don’t think he’s a threat – yet”
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Great point!)
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Startle response? Just when I thought cars couldn’t get any smarter!
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Right!!!
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I’ve never seen that, Beth. A bit startling for sure! But I like the ending! :)
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Yes and yes)
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That’s to remind people that they might have a child with them, and if so, don’t walk away without seeing to them…
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that makes sense, I had no idea there was a warning
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Whew!
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))
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That can be a terrifying message but I’m glad that it turned out to be just your piñata. My car doesn’t have this warning either so I was confused initially but a stroll through the comments cleared that up.
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I was surprised for sure )
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I didn’t know such a warning existed!
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there you go-
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