I will. Someday.
Dammit! I wanted to order a large for my husband (guess what some of our ongoing issues are), and they’re out of stock. I suspect I know why. Maybe I’ll get him an XL and put it in the dryer.
I drive with my hands at 12 o’clock and on the gear shift (manual transmission). I know it’s not right, but you’re shifting so much in city driving that it always seems to end up there.
I swear I’m going to return those books this weekend! :eek:
(They’ve been overdue since March 26.)
In honor of this thread, I went and dug out my “The Procrastinator” t-shirt, which has a cartoonish-head of a man surrounded by “Now.” “Now.” Now." about 20 times, to which he’s saying, “Later.” It somehow seems appropriate.
How about the “knee at 6” method?
That’s really a bummer of a story.
Married. 
That’s reserved for when you’re eating something that requires both hands. It’s hard to use a knife, fork, and steering wheel all at the same time.
Pllleeeeaaaassseeeeee ???
Got my curiosity piqued.
I used to carpool with a guy who would drink coffee and smoke while driving. A manual.
If the airbag goes off you risk a broken hand/arm (or worse) not to mention a broken nose (or worse).
At our annual defensive driving refresher this spring, we were told to use either 9-3 or 8-4 with vehicles with airbags. Our guest speaker was a trauma nurse who said getting hit in the face by your hand being propelled by an airbag is gonna do some damage, but it will be nothing compared to driving without a seatbelt on.
Back in the mid 1990s, I used to see a car parked on the street near my apartment, a beat up old Honda Civic sedan (too old to have any airbags), that had the flat dashboard area on the passenger side covered with little Smurf figurines, presumably glued into place. Smurfs playing baseball, Smurfs making food, Smurfs running around a toadstool, etc. It was kind of cute.
Then one day I saw that this beat up old Civic had been replaced with a brand new Civic. The owner had transferred the Smurf World diorama from her (or his) old car to the new one. Right on top of the passenger side airbag panel located on the top of the passenger side dashboard of the newer model.
Imagine riding in this car as a passenger, and getting into a collision that deployed the airbag? Death by Smurf! (And you might kill a few EMTs on the way, as they might well die laughing!)
:eek: I better remove that pinecone I put in the clock space early on. Someone could lose an eye.
Smurfed to death by Smurfette. Wouldn’t that be just smurfy? 
Went to Stratford upon Avon for a few hours when I was in the UK in 2005. Walked around, enjoyed the sights, headed back to my car before my time was up. Unfortunately I went to the wrong parking lot and had a ticket when I got there. :smack:
Only £15, stuck it in my backpack, will put my CC number on in and mail it from London when I get there that evening.
3 weeks later (I have been back in the US for 2 weeks) I am finally emptying the last odds and ends out of the backpack.What is this? :smack: Stupid, forgot to pay this in London. And it has gone up to £60 now. Let’s see, that is more than I can afford with the exchange rate right now (UK was very expensive), will have to wait until the end of the month.
2 months later, letter from the rental car agency, stick it in the read later pile, probably just a copy of the receipt since I prepaid the rental.
2 months later, hmm, letter from who in the UK? :smack: That stupid ticket. Open it up, ouch! that is a lot of pounds. Oh look they have a website I can go to in order to pay. Need to go convert it to find out what amount in dollars to put in. $280 :eek:
Found the letter from the rental car place, they were informing me that they had given out my address to the police because of an unpaid parking ticket. 
At least I can go back to the UK without getting arrested. 
I think airbags should have inspirational messages printed on them.
Things like “Today is the first day of the rest of your life”, or Hang in there, Baby!", or “Smile, things could be worse”, or maybe just an image of the classic smiley face, because if you see an air bag close up, you are probably having a bad day, and need some cheering up.
regards…
FML
So you say now.
-FrL-
Isn’t that how they got Al Capone?
This made me (and my husband) laugh out loud. People are so STUpid. I occasionally see people driving cars that you know have airbags, sitting as close to the steering wheel as you can get. That’s really not going to go well, either, unless they have disarmed the airbag. They’ll probably still get the steering column through their chest, though.
Nah, they got Capone for spitting on the sidewalk.
About 20 years ago I was driving along I-90 in upstate New York. I was in the right-hand lane. I was going with the flow of traffic at 70MPH (limit was 55 at the time.) Cars were flying by me on my left. If I had been doing 55, I would have been run off the road. As it was, someone was on my ass.
A police car came up on the left, merged over, and pulled me over. He was a real jerk right from the start. He handed me a ticket, but it didn’t have an amount on it. I was supposed to mail in my plea, then, if I plead guilty, they would mail me my fine amount.
I lived several states away, and I blew off the ticket. I received a couple of threatening letters that they would have my license suspended in my home state. I wrote a letter explaining how I had always thought ‘nailing the out-of-stater’ was a sour-grapes myth, but now I believed it. I explained that when I drove in states neighboring New York, I could safely drive the speed limit, But in New York, I had to speed in order to stay on the road. I told them they should concentrate their efforts on the New Yorkers speeding every day rather than people like me who are just passing through and forced to speed. I admitted I was speeding, but explained I had no intention of paying.
I never heard from them again.