Yesterday, our family of four drove to my husband\u2019s family home in our Panamera for a memorial service. A little while after we arrived, an older relative came over and asked:<\/p>\n
\u201cWhose big white car is parked out front?\u201d<\/p>\n
The people around him started asking, \u201cWhose car? What does it look like?\u201d<\/strong> But it was obvious he meant our Panamera. My husband didn\u2019t say anything, and it would have felt a little odd for me, the daughter-in-law, to jump in with, \u201cThat\u2019s our Porsche Panamera!\u201d<\/strong> So I kept quiet. Then another aunt chimed in:<\/p>\n \u201cOh, that one? The slightly gray one, right? That\u2019s Dad\u2019s Crown.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n The old man replied, \u201cAh, right. It looked more white than gray, though. So that\u2019s a Crown. What a big car.\u201d<\/strong> And that was the end of the conversation.<\/p>\n …Wait, no! That\u2019s not a Crown, Uncle! It\u2019s a Panamera!<\/span><\/p>\n Once the conversation had moved on, I no longer had the nerve to correct him. Because I didn\u2019t say, \u201cThat\u2019s a Panamera,\u201d when he first asked, this uncle\u2014who\u2019ll be turning 80 soon\u2014is now going to spend the rest of his life thinking:<\/p>\n A Panamera is a Crown.<\/strong> That\u2019s what he\u2019ll believe from now on.<\/strong><\/p>\n And if I bring it up the next time we meet\u2014<\/p>\n \u201cYou know that car you called a Crown the other day? It\u2019s actually called a Panamera.\u201d<\/p>\n \u2014he\u2019ll probably just say, \u201cWhat are you talking about? When was that? You\u2019re making no sense,\u201d and that\u2019ll be the end of it. So I guess I\u2019ll just have to let the misunderstanding stand.<\/p>\n I hope he gets a chance to discover the Panamera while he\u2019s still around\u2026<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Visit to My Husband\u2019s Family Home Yesterday, our family of four drove to my husband\u2019s family home in our Panamera for a memorial service. A little while after we arrived, an older relative came over and asked: \u201cWhose big white car is parked out front?\u201d The people around him started asking, \u201cWhose car? What does it look like?\u201d But it was obvious he meant our Panamera. My husband didn\u2019t say anything, and it would...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"https:\/\/www.panamera-life.com\/?p=91","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nocar-nolife","en-US"],"yoast_head":"The Misunderstanding Goes Uncorrected<\/h3>\n