Every so often, an indicator light that I’ve never seen before will flash up on the MoMo-mobile dashboard. More often than not, this annoys me because the lights are usually telling of a problem. Today, one of those indicators presented itself. I happened to be chatting with a male on my device. I described the light to him as follows, “It’s a green light composed of two parts. The first part is a semi-circle. Let’s say you had a circle and you cut it in half and then disposed of the left half…that’s the first part. Then to the left of the semi-circle, where the disposed half would have been, there’s a vertical line with three horizontal lines going through it. It looks like a football seam.”
He asked, “Are the horizontal lines more diagonal?”
I said, “It seems that way.”
He asked, “Are they going up toward the semi-circle?”
I said, “Yes.”
He asked, “Is the vertical line kind of squiggly?”
I answered, “I don’t know. I can’t really see it that well while driving.”
He responded, “I think that’s the fog light indicator.”
I asked, “What the fuck does that mean? Some light is out?”
He said it may mean the light is out or on. I asked how I could turn on such a thing. I proceeded to stop a gas station (because I needed to fill the tank, not to inspect the light situation). While the gas was being pumped (not by me because I live in New Jersey, bitch, where we don’t pump our own gas – yeah, you’re jealous – admit it!), I stepped out of the MoMo-mobile to take a look at the front lights. They were all illuminated. Then, I resorted to something I really prefer to avoid: the car user manual. This was the first time I’ve opened the book. Previously, I’ve had passengers refer to it for me. But, I was passenger-less. I arrived at a page that informed me that the semi-circle, football seam indicator is indeed related to the fog lights. Apparently, I had somehow managed to activate these fog lights that I never even knew existed. I was tasked with figuring out how I turned them on and how to switch them off. I found the page in the manual that addressed my concern. The user manual actually isn’t so bad. There are a lot of pictures, so reading isn’t really essential. Anyway, I saw the picture for the button to turn off these damn fog lights. I realized that I must have hit the button with my knee. Ultimately, I was pleased that today’s indicator light was not indicative of a problem and now, next time there’s fog, I’ll know what to do!
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