Opening Lines: "What’s that light for? No, not the oil one, the other one"

MY car doesn’t have a complicated dashboard. It gives very little feedback or nothing involving the word ‘Diagnostics’ or “Realtime Information”. “Get petrol” or “The key is on”, it mutters gruffly from time to time. Except today.

“That’s a new light.” I think. I’m driving out of Dublin and I procrastinate about stopping. No country person driving out of Dublin wants to interrupt the escape if they can help it. It would be like Bruce Willis going back for his father’s watch in Pulp Fiction.

Eventually, reluctantly, I pull in and ask Google “What’s that light for? No, not the oil one, the other one.” and it turns out it means Engine Malfunction Light. This would mean nothing to some people but I’ve been to college and I can tell you that the Engine is a Fairly Important Part of the car and Malfunction means something’s wrong.