Posted on 10/31/2007 3:10:11 AM PDT by Puzzleman
Ha! Great story!
I love power locks and windows...how can you not like that? It’s much better than leaning across the car every time you want to open the passenger window or unlock the door.
bump for home consumption
A few years ago when I worked for Keego Harbor, a local kid had a reasonably preserved Pinto (rust spots where you’d expect but not too bad). I had to meet the kid just to ask how he kept it running and congratulate him.
Cop car flashed his lights at me, and I figured out what was wrong...
Of course, I think I was a senior in HS at the time.
Automatic seats. A woman told me her parents bought a new Caddie, and while driving home, her mother had dropped the second key [and fob] down along the seat, and couldn't find key, even with the fob attached.
They call the son, and he comes over and finds it, but the parents had moved the power seat around, cutting the [security embedded] key in half.
I forget what she said it cost for a replacement.
I’m gettin’ old. To me, power locks and windows are just one more thing to break.
Which is weird since I know of no information indicating that power locks or windows break more often than manual ones... and they have never broken on any car I’ve owned. I guess I’m just prematurely crotchety.
I’ve been pulled over as a White man by White cops a few times, they have NEVER “let me off” even writing tickets for answering a cell phone without first plugging in the earbud.
“When the same journalist asked the same question of black cops, the answer was about 30 percent of the time — lower, but still an amazing percentage under the circumstances.”
Actually that number is about right. 30% of the Human Population are jerks.
The older I get the more I want the gadgets. I have driven cars with power windows since 1956 and I hate a car without them. If you think about it, most so-called conveniences on a car can also be appreciated for the safety factor they provide. I have been driving for 53 years and have had very little trouble with the gadgets compared with the essentials. I get crochety if I don’t have ‘em.
Some of us just have a thing for lost-cause cars. Why else would I drop 10K in a Fiero? ;)
ping for a later read.
I have heard that driving at night without headlights is often a sign of a drunk driver.
In January of 1968 in San Jose,Ca ,I was stopped at Three AM,drunk and high on weed with no headlights and driving down a one way street in the WRONG direction.
Officer let me go.
Support your SJPD!
“San Antonio was 80-some percent hispanic”
Madre de Dios. Que cosa!
I think that’s probably true only about half the time. A high percentage of the time when I get pulled over, the guy is already writing the ticket before he comes to the window. I think some cops have a “get the guy’s story and make a decision” policy and with some it’s “I caught the guy doing 70 and he’s getting a ticket”.
Power and manual windows are similarly convenient to me when driving...however I hate having to turn the car power on just to open the windows while parked.
It is...but it's also a sign of someone with good night vision, and of someone who has just gotten gas along a fully-lit highway.
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