Facebook Note from 10/20/2009 ~ "My New Truck Story"

So I buy my Sport Trac (and that is kind of a story in itself....Chuck's good friend Mike ("Mikey") who was SO good to me - one of the guys who took me fishing and at his restaurant he kept corn dogs just for me to eat drove over Chuck's truck and met me at the place. I drove over my Tracker. He was going to help me bargain. Anyway after quite awhile I wasn't getting the price I wanted and stood up and said, "You have wasted our time!" Mike says, "Marita - he's giving you everything you want!" I said, "YOU are suppose to be on MY side!!!" (Poooorrrr Mike - had no idea the emotional wreck his friend had married!) haha

Anyway, so the next morning I take off to work in my new truck. I mean it calls people from the steering wheel, shows my text messages across my dash (Now THAT'S distracting) and I name Elvis and it plays Elvis, (except whenever I ask for 'Celine Dion' it argues with me!! And that's how after screaming at it "NO CELINE DION!!" 5 times and then yelling an expletive...I found out it will say, "I'm sorry...I don't understand UCK YOU!"...

Okay so back to my story...I start driving and make a turn and an "E" shows on my dash. CRAP I think something is wrong. I think the E is an error message!! I don't know if I should pull over or what is going on. Another one of Chuck's friends calls me and asks how I like the truck. I tell him I'm getting an "error message" He said, "That's what you get for buying a Ford"....I'm like I'm serious - this has me upset - I don't have 50 miles on this thing yet and something is wrong. I make a turn and now it says SE......now I'm about in tears and tell Chuck's friend...."NOW I HAVE A SERIOUS ERROR!!!" He's like, "WHAT?" I said, "Yes I made the turn onto 150 and it says SE" now. He starts laughing......I am trying very hard not to cry. He says, "You are kidding me right?" I think he means I'm kdding that I've broken my truck already. Then he says, "Marita.....which direction are you going?" I say, "I don't know - do you think I should pull over?" He said, "NO....would you happen to be traveling SOUTH EAST?" I said, "It's NOT that!!" He said, "Make the next right turn and if it has an "S" show up I'm going to have to kick your ass". Sure enough........S.