Funny with idrive and a wife completely unfamiliar with such a thing
04-06-2009, 04:42 AM
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Apologies for misspelling and grammatical errors...
My wife and i was out driving the other day.
We stopped at a place where I had a little errand to attend to.
Meanwhile the wife stayed in the car listening to the radio.
But the channel was a little boring and she wanted to change it. Then she pressed button 1 beneath the cd-drive.
That one makes the car call her.
The wife does not understand anything and then she presses button No. 2.
That one is programmed to call my best mate.
She still does not understand much. Now she hears a phone ringing in the car. It is her cellphone. She looks at it and sees that I'm calling her! And my phone is in the car.
She is now stressed up a little.
The next thing happening is that the car is calling my buddy. He answers through the loudspeaker system.
She becomes more stressed. This is probably the point where anger erupts.
She further presses button No. 3. And the car starts to navigate home. A woman's voice is now to telling her directions.
My buddy hears all this (I assume - I'm not in the car yet).
When I came back to the car there was a very angry wife in the passenger seat cursing BMW!
And my buddy was laughing loudly out of the speakers!
I got a good laugh out of this - and some yelling from my wife.
My wife and i was out driving the other day.
We stopped at a place where I had a little errand to attend to.
Meanwhile the wife stayed in the car listening to the radio.
But the channel was a little boring and she wanted to change it. Then she pressed button 1 beneath the cd-drive.
That one makes the car call her.
The wife does not understand anything and then she presses button No. 2.
That one is programmed to call my best mate.
She still does not understand much. Now she hears a phone ringing in the car. It is her cellphone. She looks at it and sees that I'm calling her! And my phone is in the car.
She is now stressed up a little.
The next thing happening is that the car is calling my buddy. He answers through the loudspeaker system.
She becomes more stressed. This is probably the point where anger erupts.
She further presses button No. 3. And the car starts to navigate home. A woman's voice is now to telling her directions.
My buddy hears all this (I assume - I'm not in the car yet).
When I came back to the car there was a very angry wife in the passenger seat cursing BMW!
And my buddy was laughing loudly out of the speakers!
I got a good laugh out of this - and some yelling from my wife.
04-06-2009, 04:50 AM
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Originally Posted by werva' post='837692' date='Apr 6 2009, 08:42 AM
Apologies for misspelling and grammatical errors...
My wife and i was out driving the other day.
We stopped at a place where I had a little errand to attend to.
Meanwhile the wife stayed in the car listening to the radio.
But the channel was a little boring and she wanted to change it. Then she pressed button 1 beneath the cd-drive.
That one makes the car call her.
The wife does not understand anything and then she presses button No. 2.
That one is programmed to call my best mate.
She still does not understand much. Now she hears a phone ringing in the car. It is her cellphone. She looks at it and sees that I'm calling her! And my phone is in the car.
She is now stressed up a little.
The next thing happening is that the car is calling my buddy. He answers through the loudspeaker system.
She becomes more stressed. This is probably the point where anger erupts.
She further presses button No. 3. And the car starts to navigate home. A woman's voice is now to telling her directions.
My buddy hears all this (I assume - I'm not in the car yet).
When I came back to the car there was a very angry wife in the passenger seat cursing BMW!
And my buddy was laughing loudly out of the speakers!
I got a good laugh out of this - and some yelling from my wife.
My wife and i was out driving the other day.
We stopped at a place where I had a little errand to attend to.
Meanwhile the wife stayed in the car listening to the radio.
But the channel was a little boring and she wanted to change it. Then she pressed button 1 beneath the cd-drive.
That one makes the car call her.
The wife does not understand anything and then she presses button No. 2.
That one is programmed to call my best mate.
She still does not understand much. Now she hears a phone ringing in the car. It is her cellphone. She looks at it and sees that I'm calling her! And my phone is in the car.
She is now stressed up a little.
The next thing happening is that the car is calling my buddy. He answers through the loudspeaker system.
She becomes more stressed. This is probably the point where anger erupts.
She further presses button No. 3. And the car starts to navigate home. A woman's voice is now to telling her directions.
My buddy hears all this (I assume - I'm not in the car yet).
When I came back to the car there was a very angry wife in the passenger seat cursing BMW!
And my buddy was laughing loudly out of the speakers!
I got a good laugh out of this - and some yelling from my wife.
04-06-2009, 04:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Krozi' post='837697' date='Apr 6 2009, 08:50 AM
Hahahahahahahahaha
04-06-2009, 04:59 AM
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Havn't you programmed one of the buttons to stop your wife yelling?? 
Mine is button 5
Mine is button 5
04-06-2009, 05:02 AM
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HUD, active lights + high beam assistant, panoramic sunroof, manual gbox, grey leather and navi professional.
It's a nice car with an impressive engine.
Originally Posted by littlemouse' post='837705' date='Apr 6 2009, 02:59 PM
Havn't you programmed one of the buttons to stop your wife yelling??
Mine is button 5
Mine is button 5
I'll do that.
Quite practical i must add.
04-06-2009, 05:20 AM
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HUD, active lights + high beam assistant, panoramic sunroof, manual gbox, grey leather and navi professional.
It's a nice car with an impressive engine.
Originally Posted by MacSid' post='837717' date='Apr 6 2009, 03:16 PM
This is, hands down, the BEST post I have read in months
Thx, mate
04-06-2009, 05:44 AM
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That's wicked funny. I'll have to remember to tell my wife that those are radio buttons, when I get an LCI E60 and watch her work them. HAHAHA!