You learn something new every day (209/365)

[white_hart]

Last week, I learnt (as I thought) that switching the direction of the air conditioning in my car from "windscreen and footwells" to "footwells only" made it blows cool air straight out of the dashboard vents at me.

Today I learnt that there is actually a fourth icon on the dial, in addition to "windscreen only", "windscreen and footwells" and "footwells only". It is, unsurprisingly enough "blow air straight out of the dashboard vents at me", and is right at the far side, past "footwells only", so when I thought I'd set it to "footwells only" I'd actually set it to blow the air straight at me. Which it then did, unsurprisingly enough.

(I hadn't realised the fourth icon existed because it's on the passenger side and the knob blocks my view of it from the driver's seat. It's not like I've had the car two and a bit years or anything.)

Comments

[perennialanna]

Given Recent Events. you might have been the legal owner of the car for two and a bit years, but in terms of actual driving hours it must surely be considered an awful lot newer than that?

[white_hart]

Oddly, I've actually driven more since Recent Events than I normally would, because I'm not getting buses and have also been driving to and from swimming spots all year.

[sfred]

Good learning!