So I was driving to work this morning very early in my new 2024 Rebel. I put this gel on my gums and about half-way to work I need to swish and spit it out. I wait until a red light and get after it, just like I used to do in my 2016 Rebel. Open the door, spit, done.
Well I tried that this morning. Had the truck in Drive, foot on the brake. When I closed the door and tried to pull away from the light, the TRUCK WAS OFF, but the button was still in Run!! Oh ****! So I take my foot off the brake, press the button until it's full off, and try to restart the truck. People are going absolute nuts around me, honking, flashing their highbeams, going around me. It was mayhem. ON with the hazards. I get the truck restarted. Problem solved. NOT!! I hit the gas to pull way and the truck would only go about 2mph. Didn't know what the hell was happening. Molly Hatchet is still blasting on the tunes. Now I'm completely in the middle of the intersection. I let off the gas to coast across and SCREETCH, the truck comes to a slam stop! WTF!! I hit the gas again to get out of the intersection and barely make it across. What brakes are ON???? My foot is not on the brake! So I throw on my glasses and realized the parking brake is on! I didn't put it on! I'm rooting around in the dark for the latch to disengage the PB. Found it!! Pulled it, and clunk, the hood opens!! FUUUUUUU@K!! I finally look down and see a button, press it. now the dash turns red because I'm in drive with the effen hood open! Jesus H Christ on a pogo stick!!! I get off the road, shut the hood and drive away, with the smell of burning brakes fully overpowering my new truck smell!
What the hell caused the truck to shut the engine off and engage the parking brake??? All I did was open the driver door with the engine running and in Drive. Seat belt was on and my foot was on the brake!
I kind of understand how autopilot flies planes into the ground sometimes!
