Model 3

We have friends that got their Tesla Model 3 yesterday.   It’s been a long wait for them and will be an even longer one people who placed their reservation later.    I remember the day Ben reserved his car: it was the day of the Tesla Model 3 reveal.

The reveal wasn’t until that night, Pacific time, but Ben—sight unseen—got in line first thing in the morning to put his money down and wait in line until, well, he didn’t even know when he might be getting his car.

First thing in the morning and he was something like the hundredth person in line at our sales center alone.   This was happening all around the world.  By the end of the weekend there were hundreds of thousands of reservations.

This evening was a confusion of cars, visitors, a meeting and children without parents which so far means I haven’t had a chance to go for a ride in their car.   Maybe if I can get the children to sleep I can go after the movie is over.

The Big Boy Update:  My son loves some things sweet and other things not.   He’s not so into cupcake icing for example.   There was a cupcake in a paper bag in his lunch box when he got home today.   I held it up and asked him where he got it.  He glanced over at the bag and said, “oh, you can throw that out.”

The Tiny Girl Chronicles:  My daughter went to dinner with my mother and father’s sister, our Aunt Martha, tonight.   She came home with them and promptly climbed the tree in the front yard.    Both my mother and Aunt Martha said she reminded them of me when I was young (I spent a lot of time in trees).   As my daughter was climbing back down we asked her if she was being careful when she couldn’t get a foothold for the lower branch.   She replied very matter-of-factly, “not really”.