My Superpower in ACTION!!!

So, we drove a fair amount this weekend...mostly to half the journey between the Firstborn and Bry-bry, da boyfriend, and so I spent half a four hour trip on my own in the car with Gilbert and Sullivan boy two days in a row.  This allowed me plenty of "alone" time to USE my amazing superpower:

"Do you hear that?"
"Hear what, Mommy?"
"The noise--- the car is making a noise?"
"No, I hear a lawn mower out in the distance though."

Turn off car, listen to world around me...no lawn mower.  Panic.

Panic more.

Call Firstborn, tell her you will have to use HER car to come back for her because you don't dare drive yours because it is making a noise that sounds like a lawn mower in the distance and it only does it when you are driving TOWARD the sun (because that's how mechanical things work, don't you know?!?)

Get in car the next morning to go to grocery (because I need to see if it does it when I'm not driving toward the sun).  No sound.  Decide the noise must have actually been da Creature's Kindle making a vibration noise in the console.  Feel relieved.  Embarrassed.  Call Firstborn and tell her I'm a stupidhead and it's all okay, so I won't have to take her car.

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Cut to end of second return trip.  Sun's out again.  We are driving toward the sun again.  The noise starts.  Even the Firstborn with the hearing impairdedness she has can sort of hear it, and it sounds JUST LIKE a lawn mower off in the distance.

Sit in driveway, listen intently to the sound.  Dread starts to form like sweat beads on a hot, still afternoon before a thunderstorm...
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After much discussion and investigation, and even recalling last year when I took it to Honda and insisted there was a noise and the mechanics told me in six different ways to Sunday they could hear NO NOISE, and how insulted I was at the time, da Firstborn and I, after listening to the outside of the car (no lawn mower) and extensive listening inside the car, make the humiliating discovery that inside the console, where there is plugged in a transformer thingie that turns a car lighter into a plug so da Creature can watch Gilbert and Sullivan while I'm driving, you know, something we only do on the last leg of a trip to keep him entertained, we hear: a sound.  We look, and I notice that the actual transformer has vents...oh, and a tiny little loud fan that sounds....

Just.  Like.  A. Lawn.  Mower.  In.  The.  Distance.

Catastrophizing is such fun...if you don't have this superpower, you should try it sometime.  Life is never as much fun as when you realize how ABSOLUTELY stupid your imagination makes you.

Laugh.  It's hilarious.  Seriously...if you don't laugh at me right now, you're dead inside and should seek immediate medical attention.