(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.]
