(Submitted by friend of the blog, Paula Lauterbach)
I have had my truck for about 4 years. Sometimes I have needed to add water to the radiator, but the interior temp gauge never rose above the halfway mark.
In mid July 2011, I drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas (Remember…JULY) to attend a conference of atheists, skeptics, free thinkers and the like. I brought water in case something happened because of the heat, but I had no problems.
Then yesterday (July 24), I drove a much shorter distance to Orange County to see a friend speak at a Christian Church and answer questions about what it means to be a non-believer. Very nice talk.
Within five minutes of leaving the venue, my “check gauges” light buzzed loudly and my temp gauge was all the way over to the red right area. I pulled over ASAP and used all the water I had for Vegas. It made it to the restaurant I was going to next (and then a gas station for more).
Now my truck seems ok. But I thought it was funny it was all fine and dandy traveling to Vegas to be near heathens and then had an issue after visiting a church!
[EDITOR: If this doesn’t sound like perfect confirmation bias to reinforce my preference of Vegas over church, I don’t know what does.]
Always wondered about this when a church catches on fire or a children on a church outing to the beach are washed out to sea?
When I was in high school (and still a Christian) a friend of mine and I were waiting for a ride home. I knew she lived near the bus stop and she told me that the only bus she would ride on was a church bus as that would never have an accident. I thought “ohh okayyy” then looked up to see who was picking her up from school. Her older brother had just arrived on his motorcycle, she got on the back (without a helmet back in those days) and rode away.
Talk about not understanding the odds of things. Wonder what she thinks about that today? No idea what her name was though.