My recollection is that in all the old cars I was familiar with, you had to at least turn the key to the ACC position for the radio to work. Maybe there were some that allowed the radio to work without using the key, but I don’t remember encountering any.
My ‘92 Jetta allowed the radio to run without the key in the ignition at all, but my ‘74 Cutlass didn’t (it required the key to be turned forward)
When my husband’s uncle bought a new car, sometimes in the 90s, he was cranky that he couldn’t turn on the radio until the key was in the ignition. He had something American and bought a Honda. But i might have over-generalized.
He said he’d never had to do that before.
I loved the feature on my Volvo that you can set the headlights to go on only when the car is running. Took a minute or two to get used to it, but never having to come back in the rain to find my battery dead was great. Now my Hyundai has a similar feature, altho the headlights stay on a few minutes after or until you lock the doors. In both case, yes you can turn the headlights on over-riding this feature if you want.
My '04 Focus would let you turn the radio on with the key out, but it would shut off again an hour later.
Oh yeah, same for the Jetta.
I’ve had several car accidents but none were serious as defined by the question.
Had my bicycle stolen when I was a kid.
My car window was smashed and things stolen but not the car. One of the many things that convinced my sister to move. It was in front of her house. A great house but it was on the border of a very bad neighborhood and the border was shifting.
I made the choice that having rockets and mortars lobbed in my direction counted as being shot at.
My brother’s car was stolen years ago (maybe 25?). It was found a day or so later in Compton. It was stolen in Venice. It was a crappy car and nothing was damaged or stolen, so someone probably just needed transportation.
One Christmas when I was around 11, my grandmother said she was tired of making Christmas dinner and was taking us all out to the Miramar Hotel instead. This was once an elegant hotel in the 20s? 30s? but had been in gradual decline for years, although it has been “rehabilitated” now. The dining room was rather drab for Christmas, and there weren’t a ton of other people there. However, grandma said order whatever you want, so I ordered lobster. I got a lot of ribbing for it, but I loved it. I still love lobster.
One of my cousins was murdered when she was in her twenties. She’d been associating with a rough crowd, and someone thought she’d bragged about having law enforcement uncles (one a cop, and the other a highway patrolman), and made one of creeps nervous. Never solved though.
Reminded me that my great-grandmother was run down by a streetcar or trolley and killed. She was the woman who mostly raised my mom and siblings while my grandmother worked as a charwoman.
I’ve never ordered a lobster out of the tank, because I don’t like lobster. But my wife has. Only at Chinese restaurants, by the way. She says lobster at Chinese restaurants is much cheaper than at western seafood restaurants.
It didn’t occur to me to count my aunt. My mother’s sister was killed when hit by a truck walking to school. My mother was a little kid when it happened. I only saw the couple of pictures that they had of her. That was 30 something years before I was born.
A long time ago I had whole lobsters that way. I still like lobster but it’s been a while since I’ve wanted to work that hard for my meal. I’ll eat lobster or crab but it has to be prepared and not in the shell.
I’ve ordered whole lobster many years ago, but not at all recently. For one thing, I found out how they’re killed; for another, lobster has gotten more expensive and I’ve gotten more broke.
Whether you should go ahead and buy your spouse the thing depends a whole lot on a) how much money your family has available and b) what agreements if any you and your spouse have made about how to spend it.
My cousin was not one of the first known victims of the Green River Killer, but they found her ID on one of them (it seems as though he was trying to confuse the police as to who they were looking at).
My great-grandmother’s sister was killed by a streetcar.
Oh, forgot that, 20 years ago in Florida; rank amateur hour. I had a car stereo with a removable face plate-a neighbor found it lying in the grass and returned it to the office, where I walked in to report the break-in and saw it lying there-worked good as new. I was more upset with the lost CD case which had some treasured albums in it-likely got unceremoniously thrown into a dumpster.
Two days before the 2017 eclipse it happened again, but these assholes were much more competent-apparently from a party in the next building over. The only thing of value I had in it were my binocs, which of course, with filters, I was going to use to view the eclipse; it had a case where I took the straps out, and to a thief it undoubtedly looked like a woman’s purse. Both side windows were shattered and since this was early Sunday morning I had to spend my drive time on Monday morning getting them replaced. Fortunately the 2024 one went right over my new digs in Cleveland, didn’t have to drive anywhere.
The choice between free anything and a suicide machine was a no-brainer. If I understand correctly, a holo-suite is basically a toy.
Are we cousins??? 
Actually, I’m not sure if my great-grandmother had any siblings that emigrated to the US.
From the point of view of which one I’d want to use, yes. From the point of view of living in the society at the moment in which “free anything” becomes available – that would be an upheaval the short term results of which are really hard to predict, but I doubt that they’d all be pretty. The entire basis on which modern societies, whether capitalist or the systems currently calling themselves communist, is set up to function would be destroyed, almost instantaneously; and it would be in no way immediately clear what we were going to substitute for it. (I actually doubt it would be anything as familiar to modern minds as the “Starfleet Academy” sort of hierarchy.)
In Booth Bay Harbor we ordered lobsters from a tank, and once in Hong Kong we picked out fish from a tank. It was really more ritual than anything, it’s not like I could identify the one that was going to taste better.
Replicator could help the world, depending on how it works.