# Watching the odometer

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-odometer/35612>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 4, 2000, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-odometer/35612 "2000-10-04T14:01:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Charley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/97f17d/32.png) [@Charley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charley)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 8:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-odometer/35612/41 "2000-10-06T08:13:14Z")

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I also have the thing with the odometer. In particular when I’m reversing, I flip my head back to the front every now and then, to try to catch the thing moving - just to check.

And now I come to write that down, it looks incredibly dangerous and irresponsible and I shall desist immediately.

I don’t have the clock thing - but my husband is really obsessive about it. He has, on occasion, called me from another room to look at a digital clock when it says 12:12 or some such number. Once, he woke me up to witness the joys of 3:33 a.m. He never did that again, I tell you.

Maybe we should get together a support group, or a helpline, or a website or a …

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**Author:** ![jesuslynch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e99b99/32.png) [@jesuslynch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jesuslynch)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/watching-the-odometer/35612/42 "2000-10-06T13:23:46Z")

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> \*Originally posted by BrothaTJ \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by jesuslynch \*  
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> > Watching numbers match up, or seeing patterns (like 96369) is one of the few things that make driving interesting. What I do is look for patterns in numbers and letters on the license plates of cars I pass.  
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> Um watching the road can be interesting too…\*\*

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got something for you to watch, buddy.😃

For the record, my car hit 187,781 on the way to work this morning.

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