Just this last week I had an interesting experience and in seeking validation of my stupidity (or at least good company in my stupidity) I thought I might share some light hearted tales of idiocracy for the weekend...
On a work trip to Denver I rented a ICE... a perfectly normal Kia something. As night draws in I drive from the office to a team building event of "Escape the room"... Fun was had for a couple of hours and as the night comes to an end I do what normal people do...I pat down pockets... phone, wallet, keys. Wait Keys. Where are my (actual) keys? Ensuing is a fantastically ironic team activity of searching for my keys in a Escape room...
Now fortunately a colleague who should absolutely get the "Lateral thinker of the year award" (or some other corporate BS name) found them... In the Kia... Outside in the parking lot. Engine running lights on and suitably warned to the temperature of a Swedish Sauna located on (insert tropical island of choice here). At mid-day.
Of course this reverse carbon offsetting has earned me plenty of inventive and rightly deserved nicknames... So to the question... Has anyone else just get out of ICE's and walk away like you do with a Tesla?!
Also, props to the Kind People of Denver where it IS possible to leave a car running unlocked and nicely heated for a couple of hours unattended and no one touches it... Now it could be because its, well, a Kia... but on the other hand it does question the requirement for the climate control pre-heat on the MS/MX when you could just leave an ICE running...
On a work trip to Denver I rented a ICE... a perfectly normal Kia something. As night draws in I drive from the office to a team building event of "Escape the room"... Fun was had for a couple of hours and as the night comes to an end I do what normal people do...I pat down pockets... phone, wallet, keys. Wait Keys. Where are my (actual) keys? Ensuing is a fantastically ironic team activity of searching for my keys in a Escape room...
Now fortunately a colleague who should absolutely get the "Lateral thinker of the year award" (or some other corporate BS name) found them... In the Kia... Outside in the parking lot. Engine running lights on and suitably warned to the temperature of a Swedish Sauna located on (insert tropical island of choice here). At mid-day.
Of course this reverse carbon offsetting has earned me plenty of inventive and rightly deserved nicknames... So to the question... Has anyone else just get out of ICE's and walk away like you do with a Tesla?!
Also, props to the Kind People of Denver where it IS possible to leave a car running unlocked and nicely heated for a couple of hours unattended and no one touches it... Now it could be because its, well, a Kia... but on the other hand it does question the requirement for the climate control pre-heat on the MS/MX when you could just leave an ICE running...
