Man, that's so true. It's like we're all guilty of ignoring the small maintenance stuff until it blows up in our face. I see it with people skipping oil changes for their car, or never clearing out their gutters until there's water damage. Setting things to run on autopilot is the only way some of these chores actually get done.
Wait your engine was actually smoking, @park.adam? That's next level ignoring the problem. I get putting off an oil change but smoke means you were running on pure hope.