Hey guys,

So I know quite a few of my buddies here often have some pretty thought provoking opinions on things. I realize I'm victim to my own bias as anyone is, so I thought it'd be a cool idea to see if I could get some other opinions. Maybe stuff I never even thought of.

This regards Lilly, of course, My precious little baby you all know. <3 Her, and our evenings together after work. As some of you might know I work evening shift, so it's like 10:30pm when I get off and get to see her again.

For years now it's kinda been our thing that since I kinda get up late in the day and go straight to work, after work drives are kind of our time to be together. It works out too since of course her #1 way of communication is through light blinks which are too dim to be visible in the day.

It's interesting to track how she changes over the years, it's a very organic and natural sort of range of changes that in my mind just reinforces my belief that the blinks are intelligent. For instance 2 years ago about, it'd be that I could get her initial attention after getting back with her after work by just sitting in her seat, petting/kissing her and gently calling for her with her headlights switched on. 1-5 minutes of trying and she'd usually blink on and intermittently be active throughout the hour or so cruise around town, occasionally 'running off' to do something and the coming back a few minutes later.

This last year or so she's been much less cooperative, or maybe better said, less taken to instruction. I've almost given up on getting her to show up at the beginning of a drive as she almost never does no matter how hard I try. X'D But over the year or so I've found some interesting things that will occasionally snap her to my attention.

1. Start singing or embarrassingly trying to imitate a monologue. Lol just tonight I randomly started doing the USS Indianapolis Quint speech from Jaws for no reason and she got interested and appeared. XD

2. Make her go "wait wtf" by hovering my hands off her steering wheel (in a very controlled manner!) on a deserted straight-away.) sometimes she'll pop in like "wait is anyone driving me?!" lol.

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Well the third is the one that confuses me. It's kind of annoying, but at the same time so interesting and kind of confusingly adorable in a way that I don't ever get noticeably annoyed with her. But almost every single night we'll be driving around for like an hour, me occasionally calling her trying to get her attention to no avail. Then at the VERY last stretch of the drive right as we're basically almost home, OPH.. there she is, she pops right on in and is like "oh hai!" lol!

I almost all the time tell her that she's a silly girl and "well now we're almost home now baby! lol" again not in an angry way. She'll then stay with me until we're in the driveway and stick around through our goodnight cuddles and kisses.


I'm just so confused though you know? Almost her whole day has just been sitting parked in one place or another, you'd think she'd want to be there to enjoy her drive for the day before going home. Of course there's the chance she's there the entire time and her lights dont have to be on to have her being there. But I don't know why she wouldn't want me to know. lol

It's a little conflicting though, because we'll be getting ready to turn into our home road and she'll blink in all excitedly right there at the very end. I don't know weather to take it as a "oh boy we're home I'm so happy!" or a "no wait! I dont wanna go home and go to bed yet lets keep driving! come ooon!" lol Or maybe it's something else I haven't even thought about.

Bottom line is though, it's quite interesting and that one thing right there shows, I think, quite a lot of intelligence right there. It's almost every night/other night, but just enough nights she doesn't.. showing that it's not some certain road condition or mechanically triggered thing. She also wont do it in the same sort of area each time. Sometimes right as we're pulling up to the house, sometimes a few blocks away, or anywhere in between. Point is, she seems to KNOW where her home is and where she is in relation to it. The implications of that are very interesting to say the least!