134) Everyone who rides with you wants to play with the touch screen (and get their greasy finger prints all over it).
135) People who ride with you spend entire trips watching the Energy Monitor looking at the wheels spin and asking about what all the arrows mean, or exclaiming that the car is doing such and such at a particular time.
136) Your friends ask why it doesn't shift.
137) You are always having to provide technical information to grease monkeys and oil jockeys.
138) For Prius drivers, people ask where you got the cool custom rear light reflectors, and the look on their faces when you say they came with the car.
It has been said: Hybrid drivers come in 3 flavors, greenie, techie and cheapie. Pick any 2.
2005 Prius, Melinium Silver over gray, package 5 (AI)
139) These days, even though it is freezing, you shut the door, buckle your seatbelt, adjust the seat, and wait for everybody else to do the same -- THEN you start the car.
140) When you talk about driving, you talk in terms of mpg instead of mph. For example:
Well I was going 40 mpg up this hill and then this jerk passed me at 10mpg but then I hit the hill and I was going down at 120 mpg and then a truck was in the left lane and.....
139) These days, even though it is freezing, you shut the door, buckle your seatbelt, adjust the seat, and wait for everybody else to do the same -- THEN you start the car.
Good one! Too true... in the old days I would start it first, then buckle up. Now I buckle up, stick a cd in, etc. Then I start and immediately leave my space.
141) You would rather travel over a nasty speed bump at 25 mph and risk damaging your alignment, than slow down and risk damaging your MPG.
142) You get out of the car and notice that you are parked slightly askew in your parking space, but you decide that you would rather leave the car where it is and risk getting dinged by another car, than re-park it and risk losing another 0.3 MPG.
143) You don't want to take your car in for service because the tech will drop your current tank avg by about 3mpg just driving the car from the customer dropoff point to the service bay and back
144. You give your wife an offer she cannot refuse: a chauffer.
145. You go out for drives to repair MPG damage caused by 'the other' driver.
146. You berate your wife if she does not know the current tank MPG.
147. You follow your wife out to car in the morning, to make sure she does not start the car just to heat it up.
148. On the way home from picking the kids up from school, the topic is 'MPG', and not what they did that day.
149. You find yourself going through red lights.
150. You get upset -- really upset -- if you hit the gas to make a green light, and fail.
151. Your 13 year old son is treated to a lecture on aerodynamics when he tries to roll down a window.
152. You define a marital indiscretion as finding your MPG has dropped by more than 0.3 since you last drove.
