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<\/a>The car itself is great.\nA Jeep looks good no matter how dirty and beat up it is.<\/p>\n
The problem is the stuff inside.<\/p>\n
Let me explain…<\/p>\n
I’m a gadget lover.
\nIf electronics flow through it and it looks cool, I want to own it.
\nSo I buy it.<\/p>\n
Something that drives the frugal nature of the wife into insanity.<\/p>\n
Remember – he who dies with the most toys win.
\nI’m ahead of the game.
\nJust look at my garage.<\/p>\n
Back to the nightmare.<\/p>\n
I have a whiz-bang radio that does everything.
\nPlays CDs and movies, AM\/FM, navigation, weather and a sexy screen that shows everything including a picture of my favorite dog.<\/p>\n
And it does voice commands and hands-free phone.
\nExpensive.<\/p>\n
The navigation in the radio is nice but the in-dash navigation is a bit difficult to update so I have the latest Garmin GPS on my dashboard.<\/p>\n
By latest – the most expensive.<\/p>\n
And the best one they’ve ever made.
\nThe screen is like looking at my iPhone.
\nJust gorgeous.<\/p>\n
And it does hands-free calls too.
\nDid I mention expensive?<\/p>\n
Then there’s this digital gauge that gives me real-time water temperature, battery voltage, RPM and miles per gallon.<\/p>\n
Lots of things that makes a man’s soul sing.
\nIt’s beginning to look like the panel of this plane I used to own.<\/p>\n
I’m in heaven.<\/p>\n
Until there’s an incoming phone call.<\/p>\n
Everything starts yelling, screaming and flashing at me.<\/p>\n
The Garmin GPS starts flashing its expensive screen and some lady’s voice is announcing, “You have a call. Press accept to answer”.<\/p>\n
The radio unit starts blaring, “You have an incoming call” and things start flashing too.<\/p>\n
I swear it’s information overload.
\nI feel like I’m in the Matrix.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I answered the radio so today let’s answer the GPS.
\nPress accept.<\/p>\n
Now the radio and the GPS start fighting for who actually gets to take the call.<\/p>\n
It’s like two ten-year olds with sibling rivalry.<\/p>\n
People at the other end say I sound like I’m mixed in with two cats fighting over a mouse.<\/p>\n
The cure is turn one of them off.<\/p>\n
That would defeat the purpose of owning all this stuff.<\/p>\n
It’s enough to make someone grumpy.<\/p>\n